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the CUORE Collaboration on Aug. 26 completed the month-long installation of the particle physics experiment’s large detector array . Located at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory, 1.600 mt underground, CUORE will search for a never-before-seen particle transformation that could explain the abundance of matter in the universe. The experiment houses 1,650 pounds of tellurium dioxide crystals.  (Credit: Yury Suvorov/ UCLA, LNGS; and CUORE Collaboration)