Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Physicists have shown possible solutions to a dark matter conundrum that scientists on TV couldn’t crack. Axions may be at least some of the stuff that constitutes dark matter. “Fusion reactors will provide a promising new avenue for probing light [exotic particles],” Zupan said in a study recently published in the Journal of High Energy Physics. But where the fictional physicists failed, Zupan and his team found two possible ways a fusion reactor could generate axions. The Sun has a much better chance of creating dark matter particles because it has such enormous output, but that doesn’t mean those particles cannot be created on Earth.