The author illustrates in non-technical terms how physicists hope to identify the nature of the mysterious form of matter that goes under the name of dark matter, and that seems to permeate the Universe.

• 1: A Dark Mystery


• 2: Lurking in the Dark


• 3: Monsters


• 4: The Cosmic Show


• 5: Swiss Dark Matter Factory


• 6: Underground Mines, with a View


• 7: Signals from the Sky


• 8: The Road Ahead

Gianfranco Bertone is an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he investigates topics at the interface between Particle Physics and Cosmology. After a PhD at the University of Oxford and the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris, he has held teaching and research positions at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Padova and the University of Zurich, before going back to Paris as a permanent CNRS researcher. He joined in 2011 the new center of excellence in Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics of the University of Amsterdam. He is the editor of the book "Particle Dark Matter: Observations, Models and Searches " and the editor-in-chief of the journal "Physics of the Dark Universe ".