Article: New detector will help search elusive dark matter.

Article: NEW DETECTOR WILL HELP SEARCH ELUSIVE DARK ...
The Hindustan Times;  December 12, 2008 ;     646 words ... ... neutrons that masquerade as the elusive dark-matter particles the instruments ... a strong candidate for the elusive dark matter. "Dark matter experiments ... be a chance that one of the elusive dark-matter particles has been found ...

Article: A big find in the hunt for elusive dark ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  May 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... seals the case for the existence of dark matter - unseen, "missing mass" first invoked ... they have discovered a wispy ring of dark matter around a huge cluster of galaxies 5 ... The researchers didn't spot the dark matter directly; it doesn't emit light ...

Article: Astronomers report seeing elusive 'dark ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 21, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... caught the first tantalizing glimpses of dark matter _ the strange, unseen stuff that is ... Astrophysics in Berkeley. The search for dark matter is one of the Holy Grails of modern ... might signal the passage of a blob of dark matter. By Labor Day, the team's computer ...

Article: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN RECEIVES $5 MILLION IN CHALLENGE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 27, 2006 ;     682 words ... ... the director of McDonald Observatory. "In fact, it composes an estimated 73 percent of the universe, while so-called dark matter accounts for 23 percent, and matter of the familiar kind--the stars, galaxies, all known life--composes only 4 percent ...

Article: New MIT detector will aid dark matter search.
Physics Week;  January 13, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... neutrons that masquerade as the elusive dark-matter particles the instruments ... a strong candidate for the elusive dark matter. "Dark matter experiments ... be a chance that one of the elusive dark-matter particles has been found ...

Article: Brown dwarf stars make up some of mysterious 'dark ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 18, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... detection of objects making up the elusive ``dark matter,'' long believed to lurk between the stars. The speculated dark matter is, by definition, invisible ... looking for distorting effects dark matter would have on the light coming ...

Article: Satellite Finds `Dark Matter' That May Bind the ...
The Washington Post;  January 5, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... hugely massive but invisible "dark matter" must be generating enough gravity ... mass of the universe consists of dark matter, the precise nature of which ... observation," he said, showing the elusive dark matter hiding not in big, showy clusters ...