Physics junior Niyousha Davachi has already accomplished a lot during her undergraduate career. She’s given presentations on exomoons and lagrangians and has won a slew of awards for her work.

Now Niyousha has been been given a new task in her mission to understand the universe. She’ll be working at Texas A&M this summer to research dark matter, which is a relatively mysterious concept in cosmology or the study of the evolution of the universe.

Scientists, including Niyousha, still don’t know much about dark matter, but research to understand it is ongoing. Continue reading