Has lightning struck twice at the Large Hadron Collider? Using the same data used to discover the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists from South Africa, India and Sweden claimed to see evidence of its dark matter counterpart - a new particle the team dubbed the Madala boson. If true, this could be groundbreaking - the long-sought-after connection between particle physics and dark matter, the mysterious ‘stuff’ that makes up around 85% of matter in the universe. But as yet, the theory represents the views of only one research group. A draft paper on the work uploaded to the arXiv in November has, to date, received no citations by other physicists, nor has it been subjected peer-review. It seems a