Most Sensitive Search For Dark Matter Ever Has Begun

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A view inside the LUX detector, by Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility

Dark matter accounts for most of the matter in the universe, and yet we know very little about it. Scientists around the world are inching closer and closer to a discovery, and although we are yet to directly observe it, we are shrinking the pool of possible masses these particles can have.