Interview: China launches world's largest underground laboratory looking into the existence of dark matter

Physicist Dr Ben McAllister - Photo Forrest Research Foundation.png

Physicist Dr Ben McAllister - Photo Forrest Research Foundation.png

Interview: China has launched operations at the world's deepest and largest underground laboratory in an attempt to solve one of the biggest scientific mysteries: the existence of dark matter. The research facility is located beneath Jinping Mountain in Sichuan Province at a depth of almost two and a half kilometres. Dr Ben McAllister a physicist at the Swinburne University of Technology in Western Australia spoke to Prue Lewarne about the deep underground facility.


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