{
  "id": 605197,
  "title": "The Dark Matter Detector in the Scottish Borders",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/the-dark-matter-detector-in-the-scottish-borders",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-11T21:17:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Universe Today",
    "slug": "universe-today",
    "url": "https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-dark-matter-detector-in-the-scottish-borders"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Hunting for dark matter usually means building something enormous and burying it — a tank of liquid xenon in a mine, a magnet the size of a lorry, decades of engineering and a great deal of money. A team in Japan have just done it differently. They realised that the Earth's own magnetic field is larger than any magnet we could ever construct, and that the gap between the ground and the ionosphere…",
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}