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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · 14d

Come and see the new equipment that has arrived in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory in preparation for the SABRE South dark matter experiment! youtube.com/shorts/wHXrg... 🧪

https://youtube.com/shorts/wHXrgB84_Fs🧪

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations Elisabetta Barberio on being awarded the Italian Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Award by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

It recognises a commitment to international collaboration, and the knowledge that in science, we are more together. 🧪

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · 29d

The SABRE South #darkmatter experiment has reached an exciting milestone with the arrival of a glovebox in the Stawell Underground Physics Lab.

Scientists will use the glovebox to protect the experiment's ultra-pure crystals from exposure to air, which would cause them to degrade. 💎🧪

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Sep 2

Learn more at www.centredarkmatter.org/all/solid-ro...

Solid rock is not barrier for innovative physicist

Imagine the advantage to the mining industry of being able to ‘see’ through rock without having to excavate.

www.centredarkmatter.org

ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Sep 2

Imagine being able to 'see' through solid rock. Federico Scutti is developing a technology that uses particles from space, or muons, to do exactly that.

New funding from Australia's Economic Accelerator aims to help turn this fundamental science into a tangible product for the mining industry. 🧪

Photograph of Federico Scutti and quote about his excitement turning fundamental physics into a tangible product.

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hello! We're the Dark Matter Centre in Australia and we're a collaboration of universities from across the country working to understand #darkmatter. One surprising place we're looking for dark matter is in a gold mine in regional Victoria! We love engaging with the science community on Bluesky!

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Aug 14

Considered the 'sun's messengers' neutrinos are ghostly particles that rarely interact with normal matter.

In Pursuit, physicists explain how the study of neutrinos through the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is uncovering the sun's inner workings.

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/neu... 🧪

Neutrinos are the Sun’s secret messengers

Once thought undetectable, huge underground experiments are unlocking the nature of ghostly particles called neutrinos, which could be the key to a deeper understanding of what is happening inside the...

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Aug 3

Science hit the prime time this morning with the National #Quantum & #DarkMatter Road Trip appearing on the Today Show. 🧪

By spreading the word about the excitement of science, we hope to inspire a future generation of scientists from regional and remote Australia!

youtu.be/mgsgokenNDk

Weekend Today interview with Ben McAllister 3 Aug 2025 720p

YouTube video by ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter

youtu.be

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IdeaSquare - the innovation space at CERN @cernideasquare.bsky.social · Aug 1

@darkmatteraus.bsky.social and Swinburne University of Technology participants had the chance to observe and interact with other student teams and attend different masterclasses: from value proposition design to prototyping and science communication.

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Jul 29

Tune in to ABC Melbourne at 10am tomorrow to hear Ben McAllister talk to Raf about all things #science! 🧪

ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Jul 21

If you missed hearing from Ben McAllister on ABC Melbourne, you can listen here. Ben, a researcher at Swinburne University of Technology, talks about the search for #darkmatter and some exciting events coming to Melbourne as part of the QDM Road Trip.

www.qdmroadtrip.org/news/ben-mca... 🧪

Ben McAllister on ABC Melbourne Mornings – National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip

www.qdmroadtrip.org

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Jul 17

Tune in to ABC Melbourne at 10.40am today to hear @benmcallister.bsky.social talk about the National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip and how it's bringing fundamental science to students across Australia. 🧪

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Jul 17

Maxim Goryachev has received ARC Future Fellowship funding for his work towards building a solid-state nuclear isomer transition clock.

"I’m excited to continue advancing metrological systems for their technological potential, and their insights into the fundamental workings of the universe." 🧪

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Jul 15

We had an excellent #SciComm discussion yesterday at Swinburne uni, with a superstar panel including @astrokatie.com @sarawebbscience.bsky.social and @astrokirsten.bsky.social. Hosted by Prof. Alan Duffy.

Great insights from these folks!

Thanks to @ozgrav.bsky.social & @darkmatteraus.bsky.social

Five people seated at the front of a lecture theatre as they are about to start talking at an event

Me talking and using my hands. Dr Sara Webb sitting next to me and listening

Me, sitting and looking to the right. Dr Sara Webb and Dr Kirsten Banks to my right.

Prof. Alan Duffy, Dr Katie Mack, me, Dr Sara Webb and Dr Kirsten Banks posing in a line for a photo

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Jul 15

Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip demystifies STEM careers in regional and remote Australia educationhq.com/news/stem-ro... 🧪

STEM road trip mission: demystifying science careers so they feel more accessible

For school students deciding on their future career, the job of a scientist can feel distant or even mysterious. The default image of a scientist in a lab coat squinting into a microscope barely hints...

educationhq.com

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Jul 14

We joined @astrokatie.com of @perimeterinstitute.ca and @spaceaustralia.com's Rami Mandow at the Stawell Underground Physics Lab today. Dr Mack was involved with the lab when it was no more than a big idea. Now, it is a state-of-the-art facility soon to host the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment.🧪

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Jul 11

Listen to cosmologist, author and science communicator @astrokatie.com of @perimeterinstitute.ca talk to David Marr on Radio National about how the Universe might end. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... 🧪

How will the Universe end? - ABC listen

There are plenty of theories about how the universe began. But what about the question of how it will all end? Humanity's final moments could be due to what's called vacuum decay, the big rip or heat ...

www.abc.net.au

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Jun 26

Melbourne #darkmatter researcher Phillip Urquijo is working at the forefront of a billion-dollar neutrino detector being built in Japan.

Learn about Prof Urquijo's role in the awe-inspiring Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. 🧪
www.centredarkmatter.org/all/phillip-urquijo-at-forefront-of-hyper-kamiokande

Dark matter researcher at forefront of huge neutrino project in Japan

In the world of physics, it often takes something mind-bogglingly big to detect something tiny. This is true of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment in Japan that has been designed to understand subatomic ...

www.centredarkmatter.org

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · May 19

Scientists successfully launched high-altitude balloons from four US cities to measure cosmic interactions with Earth's atmosphere. The project gives US and Australian students experience designing and undertaking authentic astrophysics research.
www.centredarkmatter.org/all/high-alt... 🧪

Aussie and US students collaborate in high-altitude balloon launch

Seven high-altitude balloons floated upwards from four cities across the United States in a collaboration between Australian and American scientists and students. 

www.centredarkmatter.org

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · May 5

Congratulations to Centre members, and the entire ATLAS collaboration, awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

We're incredibly proud of your work and commitment to this collaboration.

Learn more and see scientists involved at: breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/... 🧪

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Apr 30

Scientists have released the technical details of the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment that will begin taking data in Australia's first deep underground laboratory this year. Learn about how it's all going to happen. www.centredarkmatter.org/all/scientis... 🧪

Scientists release dark matter experiment design

Researchers, students and science-lovers across the world now have access to the design of the globally significant SABRE South dark matter experiment in the lead up to its installation in the Stawell...

www.centredarkmatter.org

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Apr 4

Take a tour through the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory with @scienceanu.bsky.social and our postdoctoral researcher, Zuzana Slavkovska. 🧪

Science & Medicine at ANU @scienceanu.bsky.social · Apr 4

Head underground with us to this extraordinary dark matter lab, buried 1km deep (🤯) in a gold mine.

The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory is a new, world-class research facility which provides a ultra-low background radiation environment.

Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsY8...

The daily commute scientists will take 1km underground in the search for mysterious dark matter

YouTube video by Science & Medicine ANU

www.youtube.com

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Apr 3

Welcome to the journey of the SABRE South vessel into the Stawell Underground Physics Lab!

The mighty vessel will be transported from Swinburne into the pristine lab in coming months.

Scientists will then start taking data they hope will reveal the presence of #darkmatter particles. Stay tuned ..🧪

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Apr 1

From 1km underground to the other side of the globe, we had a blast in our Beyond the Stars event.

Teachers and students joined us for a live glimpse of the Stawell Underground Physics Lab.

It was part of a collaboration to give teachers the tools to teach #astronomy and #darkmatter science. 🧪

Three educators in the Stawell Underground Physics Lab prepare to livestream the event.

Science educators dressed in hi-vis prepare to head down into the underground lab.

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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · Apr 1

Tune in to ABC Wimmera tomorrow at 7.15am to hear educator Jackie Bondell talk about the livestream happening at the Stawell Underground Physics Lab, where science educators will come together to talk about #astromony and #darkmatter. Register for the event at cce.jotform.com/250637152135... 🧪

Flyer promoting Beyond the Stars event on April 2

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