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Unexpected hints of dark matter should breathe life into particle physics
With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end. However, new dark matter results suggest an exciting new way to hunt for reality's undiscovered ingredients
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The past decade has been tough for particle physics. In 2012, the long-expected discovery of the Higgs boson confirmed that the standard model of particle physics, our best theory of the fundamental ingredients of reality, was correct. Still, it was obvious that this beautiful picture of reality was incomplete.
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