Dark Matter Institute is unlocked after the first Black Hole and it allows players to purchase new technologies for Dark Matter.

Unlike most upgrades, the technologies in Dark Matter Institute are permanent and are not lost in planetary attacks or upon entering a Black Hole.

The Institute has two tech trees. Purchasing an upgrade from one tree does not lock you out from the other tree.

Reset

Resetting one tech tree costs 10 and returns the spent Dark Matter back to the player.

There is no limit to how many times a tech tree can be reset and the price for each reset does not increase.

If the player has purchased Doppelganger, it's impossible to reset the Research tree if there are no idle scientists.

Production tree

Production tree (Version 1.6.0)

Title	Effect	Price	Prerequisite
Black Breeding	Increase BPS 100 times	350	n/a
Schroedinger's Gene	Each Gene Strand gives additional 1% to BPS	500	n/a
Quantum Leap	Each available Scientist doubles BPS	750	Black Breeding
Dark Frequencies	Double idle production	600	Black Breeding
Breeding Grounds	Increase BPS received from the Planetary research 5 times	900	• Quantum Leap • Dark Frequencies
Procreative Overdrive	Increase BPS 100 times	1050	Dark Frequencies
Disease Carriers	50% increased BPS per each Scientist on planet	1475	• Procreative Overdrive • Breeding Grounds
Ghost in the Glycocalyx	Each unspent Dark Matter increases BPS by 0.01%	2000	Disease Carriers
Quasar Beams	Increase BPC 3 times	450	n/a
Quantum Robotics	Every click has a 0.1% chance to produce a Nanobot	400	Quasar Beams
Particle Accelerator	Increase max BPC combo up to x20	600	Quasar Beams
Alien Life Forms	Reduce Red Bacteria spawning time by 20%	600	Quantum Robotics
Nucleonic Advancement	Increase BPC received from the Planetary research 5 times	900	• Particle Accelerator • Alien Life Forms
Pulsar Exploits	Increase BPC 3 times	1050	Alien Life Forms
Saboteurs	10% increased BPC per each Scientist on planet	1200	Pulsar Exploits

Research tree (Version 1.8.0)

Title	Effect	Price	Prerequisite
Dark Engineering	Increase Nanobot strength by 25%	450	n/a
Nanosteel Beams	Increase Nanobot strength by 25%	1050	Dark Engineering
Impeccable Design	Increase Nanobot strength by 25%	1050	Nanosteel Beams
Replicants	Triples the amount of Nanobots earned from daily quests and recycling	1500	Impeccable Design
Warp Technology	Reduce all research time by 10%	400	n/a
Time Dilation	Reduce all research time by 10%	1050	Warp Technology
Temporal Gateways	Reduce all research time by 10%	1050	Time Dilation
Doppelganger	Adds 1 additional Scientist	600	Dark Engineering
Hazard Elimination	Increase max Bacteria Irradiation amount by 20%	600	Warp Technology
The Ultimate Life Form	Unlock level IV Bacteria Mutations	900	• Doppelganger • Hazard Elimination
Scout	Scientists travel to planets and return twice as fast	850	The Ultimate Life Form
Sleeper Agents	Increase max planetary discoveries to 8	1050	Scout
Nanite Hives	Doubles the Nanobot strength bonus from Planetary Research	1450	Sleeper Agents
Boring Experts	Doubles Scientist bonus for finding new Minerals	1200	Sleeper Agents
Genome Corruption	Find rarer bacteria more often	1050	The Ultimate Life Form
Radioactive Injections	Increase max Bacteria Irradiation amount by 20%	1050	Genome Corruption
Reinforced Plasmids	Increase max Bacteria Irradiation amount by 20%	1050	Radioactive Injections
Alter Intellect	Mutating a Bacteria reduces all remaining research time by 10 minutes	1600	Radioactive Injections

Version	Changes
1.11.0	Added a new tech: Replicants
1.8.0	Added a new tech: Alter Intellect
1.6.0	Added a new tech: Saboteurs
1.5.0	Added new techs: Nanite Hives Ghost in the Glycocalyx
1.1.0	BPS and BPC branches combined into Production tree
1.0.0	Introduced to the game