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A fridge that reaches temperatures 300 times cooler than outer space is due to be installed in the CELLAR facility in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) by mid-2025.

Professor Nicole Bell is the outgoing President of the Australian Institute of Physics, and the leader of the Theory Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics.

Centre researcher Theresa Fruth is about to set sail on the trip of a lifetime to Antarctica as part of the Homeward Bound leadership program for women and non-binary people in STEMM.

Research Director at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN-LNF), Italy, Dr Catalina Curceanu is visiting the Dark Matter Centre as the recipient of the Lyle Fellowship. She discusses her visit, the collaboration it has fostered and why she loves Australia.

Researchers have travelled deep underground to examine how cosmic rays influence the phase noise and performance of timekeeping technology.

Centre members from across Australia and internationally attended the 2024 Annual Workshop in Wollongong.

The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory has reveived a Victorian Government Enabling Tourism Grant to explore the feasibility of establishing a state-of-the-art Science Outreach Centre in Stawell.

Elisabetta Barberio, Paul Jackson and Lindsey Bignell will lead research projects that received ARC LIEF funding, announced on November 6.

To celebrate Dark Matter Day on October 31, our Centre researchers explain their role in the global search to undersand dark matter.

In the lead up to Dark Matter Day, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics (CDM) will join forces with CERN Laboratory in Geneva and European Southern Observatory (ESO) Supernova in Germany to give educators the tools to teach their students about dark matter.

Enjoy vieiwing the highlights of the 2024 National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip.. The photographs were captured by road trippers as they crossed the country, from Queensland, through the Northern Territory, via remote communities, and finishing in Western Australia.

This year’s science outreach event “Dark Matter in the Pub” was a joint event between the Centre’s Australian National University and The University of Sydney nodes. It took place on two consecutive evenings during National Science Week in August..

Professor Michael Tobar of The University of Western Australia has been awarded the Harrie Massey Medal and Prize.

A world leader in underground laboratory development was among international guests and Australian dark matter scientists who toured the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory on Wednesday.

EQUS and CDM held another highly successful National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip in 2024, visiting the Northern Territory and Indigenous schools and communities for the first time.

Centre members Robert James of The University of Melbourne and Theresa Fruth of The University of Sydney are part of an experiment that has set the tightest limits yet on the properties of dark matter.

Centre member Ben McAllister was awarded a 2025 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for his research to enhance Australian dark matter searches with quantum technology.

Associate Investigator Laura Manenti of The University of Sydney has been awarded the Italian Physics Society's education award for creating and internationally promoting an illustrated book on particle physics for children titled The Littlest Girl Goes Inside an Atom.

In the lead up to the National Quantum & Dark Matter Particle Physics orgsniser Ben McAllister spoke to David Astle on ABC Melbourne Evenings.

A group of scientists from across Australia will converge on Brisbane on Sunday, 4 August to begin the National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip.

One of Australia’s top dark matter scientist sand leader of efforts to find dark matter in regional Victoria will speak at The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute on Wednesday, 7 August.

The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip will visit regional and remote communities across Australia’s north this August.

The prestigious Italian Republic Order of Merit (Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) was awarded to Centre Director Elisabetta Barberio for her international contribution to physics research.

Centre researchers have contributed to a new book titled ‘Big Science, Innovation, and Societal Contributions’: The Organisations and Collaborations in Big Science Experiments’.

Centre CI Mike Tobar has been appointed to a position of leadership in a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science initiative to develop a roadmap toward the nation’s quantum fu

Dark Matter Centre physicists enjoyed talking to Channel 7 about the Partner Schools Program, which has expanded into New South Wales.

Kooringal High School students learnt about physics from scientists involved in world-leading dark matter projects today.

Three schools in the Riverina region are the first in New South Wales to participate in an innovative program introducing students to dark matter.

Three schools in the Riverina region are the first in New South Wales to participate in an innovative program introducing students to dark matter.