Looking for the Darkness in Ice

Buried underneath a mile of solid ice at the bottom of the world, two instruments are at the forefront of a new effort to corroborate or refute one of the most controversial scientific results in the ongoing search for dark matter.  One of the DM-Ice17 detectors being lowered into the ice at the South Pole in 2010. Image: The University of Wisconsin-Madison The University of Wisconsin's DM-Ice17 experiment wrapped up two years of data collection at the South Pole in it's hunt for the universe's...