Physicists and Geneticists Team Up to Build a Galactic Dark-Matter Detector out of DN

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The hunt for dark matter is arguably the biggest scientific search ongoing right now--even as scientists close in on the elusive Higgs boson--but finding it is not proving easy, since physicists can’t see or measure the stuff, or even be sure that it’s there at all (it is, after all, theoretical at this point). To find it, a notable collaboration of astrophysicists and geneticists is gathering to build one of the most far-out particle detectors we’ve come across in recent memory: a dark matter detector made out of DNA.

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