The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist on December 18, 2003 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time.

Using detectors chilled to near absolute zero, from a vantage point half a mile below ground, physicists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search today (November 12) announced the launch of a quest that could lead to solving two mysteries that may turn out to be one and the same: the identity of the dark matter that pervades the universe, and the existence of supersymmetric particles predicted by particle physics theory.