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Physics: Broaden the search for dark matter

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Bold strategies are needed to identify the elusive particles that should make up most of the Universe's mass, say Mario Livio and Joe Silk.

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  1. Mario Livio is an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,

    Mario Livio

  2. France. He is also in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Joe Silk is professor of physics at the Institute of Astrophysics, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; and is a senior fellow at the Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Oxford, UK.,

    Joe Silk

  3. a senior fellow at the Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Oxford, UK.,

    Joe Silk

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