/oss/taxonomy/term/2211/all en /oss/article/health/dark-matter-inside-your-gut <p>There is a kind of dark matter inside our intestinal tract. “Dark matter” is the phrase coined for the matter that is implied to be present in the universe based on physicists’ calculations but that cannot be seen yet. Scientists who study tiny living things are facing their own type of dark matter: invisible microbes that are indirectly detected. They call it “microbial dark matter.”</p> Fri, 21 May 2021 19:41:42 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8742 at /oss