Dark matter may have been found on Earth

Dark matter may have been found on Earth

• 14:45 17 April 2008
• NewScientist.com news service
• Anil Ananthaswamy

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Particles of invisible "dark matter" have been detected deep inside a mountain in Italy, a collaboration of Italian and Chinese physicists claims. But others remain sceptical of the result, because other experiments have failed to detect any dark matter at all.