Physics and Astronomy News Archive: March 2008

Crystal Bells Stay Silent As Physicists Look For Dark Matter

Source: Fermilab Posted: 3/19/08

Scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment today announced that they have regained the lead in the worldwide race to find the particles that make up dark matter.

'To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'

Isaac Newton
(1643-1727)