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Dark matter may have been found on Earth |
An Italian team claim to have observed dark matter particles in a detector, replicating an earlier finding, but physicists remain sceptical
On Wednesday 16 April, at a workshop in Venice, Italy, the Dark Matter (DAMA) collaboration announced the results of the 4-year second phase of its experiment. DAMA scientists claimed to see dark matter back in 2003, but some scientists believed the result was a quirk of statistics. Now the evidence is stronger.
"We are pretty sure now that this [signal] is not a statistical fluke. What it means is another matter," says Francis Halzen, an astroparticle physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US. He spoke to New Scientist after attending the announcement by DAMA project leader Rita Bernabei of the University of Rome, Italy.
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