Our understanding of Dark Matter is critical to finally coming to a Unified Theory of Everything. Dark Matter is getting hot with recent glimpses: (PhysOrg.com) -- Two teams of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have independently made the largest direct measurements of the invisible scaffolding of the universe, building maps of dark matter using new methods that, in turn, will remove key hurdles for understanding dark energy with ground-based telescopes. read more at PhysOrg

Teams from Fermilab and Berkeley Lab used galaxies from wide-ranging SDSS Stripe 82, a tiny detail of which is shown here, to plot new maps of dark matter based on the largest direct measurements of cosmic shear to date. Credit: SDSS

Dr. Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist, gives us a fantastic break-down on the hype of the Higgs and the key role Dark Matter is playing in a possible Unified Theory of Everything.