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.
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked the #WomenOfDarkMatter what inspired them to pursue their studies in physics. 🧪
February 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked the #WomenOfDarkMatter what inspired them to pursue their studies in physics. 🧪
If you're up early tomorrow, you can catch Zuzana Slavkovska talking to ABC Canberra at 6.45am about #darkmatter and women in STEM on @unesco.org's International Day of Women and Girls in Science. 🧪
February 10, 2026 at 10:05 AM
If you're up early tomorrow, you can catch Zuzana Slavkovska talking to ABC Canberra at 6.45am about #darkmatter and women in STEM on @unesco.org's International Day of Women and Girls in Science. 🧪
Tune in to ABC Melbourne at 10.45am tomorrow to hear Elisabetta Barberio talk about #darkmatter and #WomenInSTEM on @unesco.org's International Day of Women and Girls in Science.🧪
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Tune in to ABC Melbourne at 10.45am tomorrow to hear Elisabetta Barberio talk about #darkmatter and #WomenInSTEM on @unesco.org's International Day of Women and Girls in Science.🧪
Thanks @rami.spaceaustralia.com - we appreciate the enthusiasm and knowledge you bring to your writing ... and it was fun to visit SUPL with you!
BIG SHOUTOUT to @darkmatteraus.bsky.social, @ozgrav.bsky.social and SUPL for helping make this trip really informative and awesome.
I *really* do love sharing so much of the good science we are doing here in Australia, and this huge project is going to be super interesting.
I *really* do love sharing so much of the good science we are doing here in Australia, and this huge project is going to be super interesting.
After nearly a decade of work, scientists, engineers and researchers from @darkmatteraus.bsky.social @ozgrav.bsky.social and the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) expect to begin first data-taking this year -- a major milestone that could reshape our understanding of the Universe.
January 27, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Thanks @rami.spaceaustralia.com - we appreciate the enthusiasm and knowledge you bring to your writing ... and it was fun to visit SUPL with you!
Interested in learning about the Stawell Underground Physics Lab and the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment? @spaceaustralia.com is a great place to start.
Thank you @rami.spaceaustralia.com and @astrokatie.com for your interest & engagement in the project!
www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 🧪
Thank you @rami.spaceaustralia.com and @astrokatie.com for your interest & engagement in the project!
www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 🧪
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January 27, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Interested in learning about the Stawell Underground Physics Lab and the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment? @spaceaustralia.com is a great place to start.
Thank you @rami.spaceaustralia.com and @astrokatie.com for your interest & engagement in the project!
www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 🧪
Thank you @rami.spaceaustralia.com and @astrokatie.com for your interest & engagement in the project!
www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 🧪
Thank you to everyone who joined us in our search for #darkmatter in 2025! We're looking forward to another year of exploration, outreach and discovery in 2026 🧪
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Thank you to everyone who joined us in our search for #darkmatter in 2025! We're looking forward to another year of exploration, outreach and discovery in 2026 🧪
The 2025 Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip was a highlight of the year, visiting schools and communities across the sun. We created a film to remember all of the great times and happy (and curious!) faces. 🧪 youtu.be/RbFFFmzZ63k
The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip travelled to schools across Australia in 2025.
YouTube video by ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter
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December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The 2025 Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip was a highlight of the year, visiting schools and communities across the sun. We created a film to remember all of the great times and happy (and curious!) faces. 🧪 youtu.be/RbFFFmzZ63k
The LZ collaboration has released results that extend the experiment's search for low-mass #darkmatter and set world-leading limits on WIMPs. It was the first time it has detected signals from the sun's neutrinos. Congratulations to our researchers Robert James and Theresa Fruth and all involved! 🧪
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The LZ collaboration has released results that extend the experiment's search for low-mass #darkmatter and set world-leading limits on WIMPs. It was the first time it has detected signals from the sun's neutrinos. Congratulations to our researchers Robert James and Theresa Fruth and all involved! 🧪
We might be unlocking one of the universe's great mysteries, but that doesn't mean we don't have to do the chores!
As equipment arrives in the lab, it must be cleaned before it is installed and tested.
All of this is in preparation for the arrival of the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment! 🧪
As equipment arrives in the lab, it must be cleaned before it is installed and tested.
All of this is in preparation for the arrival of the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment! 🧪
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We might be unlocking one of the universe's great mysteries, but that doesn't mean we don't have to do the chores!
As equipment arrives in the lab, it must be cleaned before it is installed and tested.
All of this is in preparation for the arrival of the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment! 🧪
As equipment arrives in the lab, it must be cleaned before it is installed and tested.
All of this is in preparation for the arrival of the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment! 🧪
It's a wrap on another collaborative, engaging and inspiring Annual Workshop of #DarkMatter scientists from across Australia!
As we near the end of the year, we are energised by what we have learnt and what 2026 holds. 🧪
As we near the end of the year, we are energised by what we have learnt and what 2026 holds. 🧪
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It's a wrap on another collaborative, engaging and inspiring Annual Workshop of #DarkMatter scientists from across Australia!
As we near the end of the year, we are energised by what we have learnt and what 2026 holds. 🧪
As we near the end of the year, we are energised by what we have learnt and what 2026 holds. 🧪
It's not very often you hear a member of the audience blowing raspberries during a presentation, but we're happy to hear gorgeous baby noises at our Annual Workshop!
It has been fantastic to see the light relief our CI's little one has brought to our deep dives into #darkmatter research. 🧪
It has been fantastic to see the light relief our CI's little one has brought to our deep dives into #darkmatter research. 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's not very often you hear a member of the audience blowing raspberries during a presentation, but we're happy to hear gorgeous baby noises at our Annual Workshop!
It has been fantastic to see the light relief our CI's little one has brought to our deep dives into #darkmatter research. 🧪
It has been fantastic to see the light relief our CI's little one has brought to our deep dives into #darkmatter research. 🧪
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
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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.