ARC Dark Matter Centre
@darkmatteraus.bsky.social
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics brings together experts from across Australia and internationally to unlock the secrets of dark matter and foster the science and engineering leaders of the future.
We've arrived in Canberra for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Dark Matter Centre! Our members have travelled from Melbourne, Adelaide, Western Australia, and Sydney to attend this event.
We are looking forward to sharing knowledge and ideas throughout the week.
#DarkMatter #Physics #Science 🧪
We are looking forward to sharing knowledge and ideas throughout the week.
#DarkMatter #Physics #Science 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We've arrived in Canberra for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Dark Matter Centre! Our members have travelled from Melbourne, Adelaide, Western Australia, and Sydney to attend this event.
We are looking forward to sharing knowledge and ideas throughout the week.
#DarkMatter #Physics #Science 🧪
We are looking forward to sharing knowledge and ideas throughout the week.
#DarkMatter #Physics #Science 🧪
📡We are receiving transmissions from deep underground!
This dashboard displays the performance of the equipment in our underground lab in Stawell.
The same software reports temperature, humidity and dust levels. This ensures conditions are optimal for the arrival of our #darkmatter experiment. 🧪
This dashboard displays the performance of the equipment in our underground lab in Stawell.
The same software reports temperature, humidity and dust levels. This ensures conditions are optimal for the arrival of our #darkmatter experiment. 🧪
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
📡We are receiving transmissions from deep underground!
This dashboard displays the performance of the equipment in our underground lab in Stawell.
The same software reports temperature, humidity and dust levels. This ensures conditions are optimal for the arrival of our #darkmatter experiment. 🧪
This dashboard displays the performance of the equipment in our underground lab in Stawell.
The same software reports temperature, humidity and dust levels. This ensures conditions are optimal for the arrival of our #darkmatter experiment. 🧪
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The importance of basic research
“no one wants to see taxpayers’ monies being misspent. But world-changing discoveries often occur unexpectedly and are built on years…decades — of fundamental research that expanded our knowledge of the world”
🧪 #Research #Scicomm
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“no one wants to see taxpayers’ monies being misspent. But world-changing discoveries often occur unexpectedly and are built on years…decades — of fundamental research that expanded our knowledge of the world”
🧪 #Research #Scicomm
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The importance of basic research
“no one wants to see taxpayers’ monies being misspent. But world-changing discoveries often occur unexpectedly and are built on years…decades — of fundamental research that expanded our knowledge of the world”
🧪 #Research #Scicomm
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“no one wants to see taxpayers’ monies being misspent. But world-changing discoveries often occur unexpectedly and are built on years…decades — of fundamental research that expanded our knowledge of the world”
🧪 #Research #Scicomm
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"We have several big mysteries in physics and each time we solve one of them, it will revolutionise our technology and our culture." Karl Kruszelnicki
Happy Dark Matter Day! What better way to celebrate than discussing the value of science? Listen from 47 mins. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Happy Dark Matter Day! What better way to celebrate than discussing the value of science? Listen from 47 mins. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Drive - ABC listen
Join us to get up to speed on the latest news, with great music and a few laughs for good measure.
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"We have several big mysteries in physics and each time we solve one of them, it will revolutionise our technology and our culture." Karl Kruszelnicki
Happy Dark Matter Day! What better way to celebrate than discussing the value of science? Listen from 47 mins. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Happy Dark Matter Day! What better way to celebrate than discussing the value of science? Listen from 47 mins. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Science-lovers, are you looking for an inspiring way to celebrate Halloween (and Dark Matter Day)?
Join us for a livestreamed tour of the Stawell Underground Physics Lab in Australia and Boulby Underground Lab in the UK on Friday.
Register for free at: dmd-stawell-boulby.eventbrite.co.uk 🧪
Join us for a livestreamed tour of the Stawell Underground Physics Lab in Australia and Boulby Underground Lab in the UK on Friday.
Register for free at: dmd-stawell-boulby.eventbrite.co.uk 🧪
October 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Science-lovers, are you looking for an inspiring way to celebrate Halloween (and Dark Matter Day)?
Join us for a livestreamed tour of the Stawell Underground Physics Lab in Australia and Boulby Underground Lab in the UK on Friday.
Register for free at: dmd-stawell-boulby.eventbrite.co.uk 🧪
Join us for a livestreamed tour of the Stawell Underground Physics Lab in Australia and Boulby Underground Lab in the UK on Friday.
Register for free at: dmd-stawell-boulby.eventbrite.co.uk 🧪
Are you interested in seeing (typo fixed!) the UK and Australian labs where scientists are searching for #darkmatter? Register for Dark Matter Day tour and talks, streamed from Boulby Underground Lab and Stawell Underground Physics Lab on Oct 31. dmd-stawell-boulby.eventbrite.co.uk 🧪
Dark Matter: In depth
How do you see the unseeable? Join us online for a joint link to Stawell Underground Physics Lab and the Boulby Underground Lab to find out
DMD-Stawell-Boulby.eventbrite.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Are you interested in seeing (typo fixed!) the UK and Australian labs where scientists are searching for #darkmatter? Register for Dark Matter Day tour and talks, streamed from Boulby Underground Lab and Stawell Underground Physics Lab on Oct 31. dmd-stawell-boulby.eventbrite.co.uk 🧪
"We're looking at huge questions of nature and we are pursuing answers that have a deep connection to how the universe works in general."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... 🧪
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... 🧪
Inside the experiment that could change our understanding of the universe
Deep underground in an old gold mine in regional Victoria, scientists enter a worldwide race to understand the composition of dark matter.
www.abc.net.au
October 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"We're looking at huge questions of nature and we are pursuing answers that have a deep connection to how the universe works in general."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... 🧪
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... 🧪
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🧪
September 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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... 🧪
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. 🧪
It recognises a commitment to international collaboration, and the knowledge that in science, we are more together. 🧪
September 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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. 🧪
It recognises a commitment to international collaboration, and the knowledge that in science, we are more together. 🧪
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. 💎🧪
Scientists will use the glovebox to protect the experiment's ultra-pure crystals from exposure to air, which would cause them to degrade. 💎🧪
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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. 💎🧪
Scientists will use the glovebox to protect the experiment's ultra-pure crystals from exposure to air, which would cause them to degrade. 💎🧪
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. 🧪
New funding from Australia's Economic Accelerator aims to help turn this fundamental science into a tangible product for the mining industry. 🧪
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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. 🧪
New funding from Australia's Economic Accelerator aims to help turn this fundamental science into a tangible product for the mining industry. 🧪
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... 🧪
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
August 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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... 🧪
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... 🧪
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
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
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August 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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
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
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@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.
August 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@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.
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... 🧪
www.qdmroadtrip.org/news/ben-mca... 🧪
Ben McAllister on ABC Melbourne Mornings – National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip
www.qdmroadtrip.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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... 🧪
www.qdmroadtrip.org/news/ben-mca... 🧪
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. 🧪
July 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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. 🧪
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." 🧪
"I’m excited to continue advancing metrological systems for their technological potential, and their insights into the fundamental workings of the universe." 🧪
July 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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." 🧪
"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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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
Great insights from these folks!
Thanks to @ozgrav.bsky.social & @darkmatteraus.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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
Great insights from these folks!
Thanks to @ozgrav.bsky.social & @darkmatteraus.bsky.social
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
July 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip demystifies STEM careers in regional and remote Australia educationhq.com/news/stem-ro... 🧪
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.🧪
July 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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.🧪
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
July 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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... 🧪
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
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
June 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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
Learn about Prof Urquijo's role in the awe-inspiring Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. 🧪
www.centredarkmatter.org/all/phillip-urquijo-at-forefront-of-hyper-kamiokande
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... 🧪
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
May 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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... 🧪
www.centredarkmatter.org/all/high-alt... 🧪
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/... 🧪
We're incredibly proud of your work and commitment to this collaboration.
Learn more and see scientists involved at: breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/... 🧪
May 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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/... 🧪
We're incredibly proud of your work and commitment to this collaboration.
Learn more and see scientists involved at: breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/... 🧪