Dark matter hunt heats up with first result from world's biggest detector.

So to search for WIMPs physicists need only look for recoiling nuclei in detectors deep underground, where they're shielded from other types of radiation that can also cause recoil events. However, physicists are only now starting to probe the heart of the possible ranges of mass and interaction strength for WIMPs, contends Rafael Lang, a physicist and XENON team member at Purdue University. Physicists working with the world's biggest dark-matter detector - a behemoth in the United States known as LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) - released their first results today. [Extracted from the article]