Disputed dark-matter claim to be tested by new lab in South Korea A multi-million dollar facility is hoping to put a 21-year-old debate about dark matter to rest.Disputed dark-matter claim to be tested by new lab in South Korea A multi-million dollar facility is hoping to put a 21-year-old debate about dark matter to rest.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01347-3?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=bd1819e3da-nature-briefing-daily-20240530&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-bd1819e3da-50432164 South Korea’s new Yemilab will try to replicate experiments that seem to prove the existence of dark matter. Signs of the mysterious substance, which is thought to account for 85% of the Universe’s mass, were found in a lab in Italy. But for more than two decades, no one has been able to definitely replicate the results. Yemilab will also hunt for elusive particles called neutrinos to prove some of their properties. “If both [experiments] will deliver only null results, we should seriously start rethinking the Universe,” says particle physicist Nicola Rossi.