Submission + - Experiment possibly detected dark matter (sciencenews.org)
AMESN writes: An experiment in the Soudan mine in northern Minnesota may have picked up the signature of WIMPs, weakly interacting massive particles, theorized to be the least massive type of dark matter. While the physicists involved note a one in four chance that ordinary subatomic particles caused the characteristic events in the experiment’s germanium detectors, the physicists are also saying that it’s not possible to reject the events as being from dark matter particles. Dark matter is thought to make up 80 percent of the mass of the universe, but dark matter particles have not yet been detected.