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Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek

Nobel Laureate, MIT Professor

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Fusion reactors as dark matter laboratories

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Co-originator of axion theory (1978)

Fusion reactors might crack open the dark matter mystery without trying. University of Cincinnati physicist Jure Zupan and colleagues at Fermilab, MIT, and Technion just published a breakthrough showing how neutrons slamming into reactor walls could spawn axionsโ€”the hypothetical particles that may explain the 27% of the universe we can't see. The twist: we're already building these reactors for clean energy.

Updated Dec 29, 2025