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Search for Dark Matter Particles Turns Up Zilch

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The most sensitive search yet for the elusive particles that may make up dark matter has turned up nothing, putting stronger limits than ever on the ingredients of nature's invisible stuff. [Full Story

NEXT STOP: Student Science Experiments Riding Japanese Rocket to Space Station

Student Science Experiments Riding Japanese Rocket to Space Station

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Alien superbugs and space spiders are the subjects of two student-designed science experiments due to launch today toward the International Space Station aboard a Japanese spacecraft. [Full Story

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