We built the biggest detector in the universe, pointed it at the entire planet, and it found... maybe something, possibly nothing, somewhere near Southeast Asia.
Physicists Turned Earth Into a Dark Matter Detector and Got Strange Signals
Physicists in Japan, led by theorist Atsushi Taruya, treated Earth's ionosphere cavity as a natural resonator to hunt for axions, hypothetical particles that could decay into photons in strong magnetic fields and explain dark matter. Their search flagged dozens of candidate signals, strongest near Southeast Asia and weakest at the poles, but all data came from a single UK observatory, so none can be confirmed yet. Three axion papers appeared in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics and a dark photon study in Physical Review D.
Source: Physicists Turned Earth Into a Dark Matter Detector and Got Strange Signals — ScienceAlert
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