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• BBC TV, 5 April 2004: The Sky at Night - Digging for Dark Matter (pictures etc. here)
• Newsweek, 20 October 2003: A Universe of Riddles
• CERN Courier, June 2003: Boulby extends the search for dark matter
• Whitby Gazette, 2 May 2003: Science minister joins hunt for WIMPs
• Guardian, 1 May 2003: Dark matter in deepest Yorkshire
• Financial Times, 30 April 2003: Scientists in salt mine aim to shed light on dark matter
• Guardian, 30 April 2003: Race to find dark matter heats up
• Independent, 30 April 2003: A matter of deep, dark significance in the salt mines of Yorkshire
• Daily Telegraph, 30 April 2003: Are there Wimps down there?
  (reprinted in Sydney Morning Herald, 5 May 2003, as The search for the missing universe)
• The Times, 30 April 2003: Is the secret of dark matter 3,000ft underground?
• The Times, 30 April 2003: North Sea salt mine is research paradise
• BBC TV News, 29 April 2003: David Shukman reports (needs RealPlayer)
• Middlesborough Evening Gazette, 29 April 2003: Mine's role in unlocking dark secret
• Newcastle Chronicle & Journal, 29 April 2003: Trip into the dark in search of universal truth
• nature science update, 29 April 2003: Showers and air-con for WIMPs down Yorkshire mine
• The Northern Echo, 29 April 2003: Minister in deep discussions as new science lab opens
• Reuters, 29 April 2003: British Scientists Seek Missing WIMPs of Universe (picked up by, at least: ABC, CNN, Cape Argus, Hindustan Times, MSNBC, New Zealand Herald, Straits Times)
• Spaceflight Now, 29 April 2003: The search for the missing mass of the Universe
• Yorkshire Post, 29 April 2003: Science plumbs new depths in hunt for wimps
• BBC News Online, 28 April 2003: Science in the underworld
• PPARC press release, 29 April 2003: 90% of the Universe is Missing (includes Boulby pictures)
• nature science update, 1 May 2002: Xenon outs WIMPs
• Frontiers, issue 13 (summer 2002): The search for WIMPs (pdf file here)
• The Economist, 5 January 2002: Money pits
• Physics World, 14, issue 9 (September 2001): Physicists push themselves to the limit (p. 10)
• Physics World, 13, issue 1 (January 2000): Physics gets dark and exotic (p. 13); The search for dark matter (p. 23)
• AlphaGalileo press release, 7 December 1999: Scientists get go-ahead to continue the search for the missing mass of the Universe in the Boulby salt and potash mine
• Daily Telegraph, 23 September 1999: The key to everything is in a crystal ball
• Financial Times, 15 September 1999: Sheffield team casts light on 'dark' matter ^{[1] [2]}
• Independent, 15 September 1999: Missing matter may be found in mine-shaft
• BBC News Online, 15 September 1999: Searching for wimps ^[2];
                                 Pallab Ghosh interviews UKDMC members ... (needs RealPlayer)
• Reuters, 14 September 1999: Scientists Closer To Solving Dark Matter Mystery ^[2]
• British Association for the Advancement of Science and PPARC joint Press Release, 10 September 1999
• The Times, 14 August 1999: Answer to universal mystery down t'pit
• UK Particle Physics Picture of the Week, 14 April 1999
• Physics World, 12, issue 4 (April 1999) p8: UK digs deep in search of dark matter
• July 1998 issue of Focus, pp120-121: Waiting for Wimps
• July 1998 issue of Tomorrow's World (BBC Publications), pp 50-54: Mined over matter
• Issue 7:5 (May 1998) of Physics Review (Philip Allan), pp 25-29: Shooting Sparrows in the Dark
• May 1998 issue of GEO, pp 171-173: Die Suche nach den Wimps
• April 1998 issue of Muy Interesante, pp 115-118: El universo fantasma
• Science Minister investigates `dark matter' (University of Sheffield press release 2/98); pictures
• The Engineer, 13-27 December 1990, p30 : SERC award helps scientists solve a galactic riddle

Notes:

1. Despite the headline, as the Press Release made clear, the research is being conducted by a collaboration of scientists from Imperial College, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and University of Sheffield - the UK Dark Matter Collaboration (UKDMC). US and other European groups will also participate in the future programme.
2. Nothing in the Press Release nor anything said by any UKDMC Spokesman should be interpreted as implying that any members of the Collaboration believe that there is any evidence that the anomalous events observed in NaI are due to WIMP interactions.