Scientists May Have Found the Ultimate Dark Matter Detector
- kelseygarbutt
- Aug 11
- 1 min read
Researchers are developing a revolutionary tool—a nuclear clock—that could become the most sensitive detector of dark matter, the mysterious substance believed to make up most of the universe’s mass.
This clock uses the radioactive isotope thorium-229, which has unique properties allowing scientists to measure incredibly tiny shifts in atomic behaviour. These shifts could be caused by dark matter, which interacts so weakly with normal matter that it’s been impossible to detect directly—until now.
