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Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

Researchers from Virginia Tech reveal that ancient rocks might also have dark matter traces. This fascinating concept of ...

Analyzing billion-year-old rocks, researchers at Virginia Tech hope to find traces of dark matter. The idea was first ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

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A Virginia Tech-led team is hunting for dark matter — not with telescopes or particle colliders — but by scrutinizing billion ...

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With advancements in imaging technology, the first successful dark matter detector might turn out to be an ancient rock. The visible universe — every potato, gas giant, steamy romance novel, black ...