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6 Freaky Particles That Could Fix Physics—If They Exist

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than others.

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee Mar 11

Something Mysteriously Powerful Slammed Into Earth in 2023. Scientists Now Have a Theory

The science here gets really dark.

Space & Spaceflight Gayoung Lee Feb 6

China Just Took the Hunt for Elusive ‘Ghost Particles’ to the Next Level

After a decade of construction, the gigantic JUNO detector has joined the race to uncover the many mysteries of the neutrino.

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee Aug 27

Antarctica’s Ghost Hunters: Inside the World’s Biggest Neutrino Detector

Physicist Carlos Argüelles-Delgado gives us an introduction to this one-of-a-kind facility, one of the most successful neutrino detectors in the world.

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee Aug 13

Sno Plus Nuclear Reacor Antineutrino Detector

Physicists Catch ‘Ghost Particles’ Bouncing Off Matter in Record-Breaking Experiment

Physicists recorded the lowest-energy neutrino event yet, using signals from the particles’ antimatter counterpart produced in a nuclear reactor.

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee Jul 30

Scientists in Antarctica Detect Deep-Earth Signals That Defy Known Physics

The anomalies, which can’t be explained by known particle-based signals, have baffled scientists.

Physics & Chemistry Ellyn Lapointe Jun 16

Neutrinos Have No Business Being This Freaking Small

A new measurement finds the universe's teensiest particles weigh no more than one-millionth the mass of an electron.

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Apr 13

A visualization of a simulated event in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector.

Physicists Detect Most Energetic ‘Ghost Particle’ Ever—30,000 Times More Powerful Than LHC Particles

The staggeringly energetic neutrino likely came from beyond our galaxy, and physicists have two main suspects.

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Feb 12

Photo: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility

Massive Caverns Excavated for New Particle Accelerator in South Dakota

The excavation now clears the path for Fermilab’s neutrino detectors.

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Feb 5

Physicists Detect Neutrinos for First Time Using Large Hadron Collider

The detection represents a "significant breakthrough"—and proves the value of an upcoming experiment.

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Nov 29

Russian Scientists Drop a Telescope Into the Deepest Lake on Earth

On Saturday, a team of Russian researchers dropped a brand-new telescope into frigid Lake Baikal, the deepest lake on Earth. It wasn’t an accident; the instrument took the plunge to give the scientists a better shot at detecting neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that are extremely difficult to spot, since they usually pass right through matter…

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Mar 17

Why the U.S. Is Betting It All on the Most Puzzling Particle in the Universe

Nearly 14 billion years ago, a universe appeared in an unthinkably high-energy blast. Particles started to materialize out of that energy, as did their antiparticles, which are kind of like evil twins, a mirror image with the opposite electric charge. Each and every particle had an antiparticle, scientists believe, and they would annihilate each other…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum May 19

Photo: The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research of the University of Tokyo

Where Did All the Antimatter Go? Scientists Are Closer to Finding Out

Particle physicists have released the results of a decade-long search, taking us a crucial step closer toward understanding where all of the universe’s antimatter has gone. The universe’s matter can be divided into two classes—matter and antimatter—where each matter particle has an antimatter partner with the same mass and opposite electrical charge. But given the similarity…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 15

Release the Muons! Physics Breakthrough Will Lead to a New Kind of Particle Collider

The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometer-round ring, costing over $10 billion, with no promise of finding something as glamorous as last decade’s Higgs boson. But does the future of physics need to be so large? What if researchers could probe the secrets of the smallest particles using technology that was, well,…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 5

The Future of Particle Physics Is Bright, Bleak, and Magical

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson back in the summer of 2012. Nicknamed “the God particle,” it was the last new undiscovered particle predicted by the backbone theory of particle physics. Since then, physicists have found a whole lot of, well, nothing. The Higgs high hasn’t carried…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Oct 23

A Huge Experiment Has ‘Weighed’ the Tiny Neutrino, a Particle That Passes Right Through Matter

An experiment nearly two decades in the making has finally unveiled its measurements of the mass of the universe’s most abundant matter particle: the neutrino. The neutrino could be the weirdest subatomic particle; though abundant, it requires some of the most sensitive detectors to observe. Scientists have been working for decades to figure out whether…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 18

Avengers: Endgame, Dark Matter, and a Fake Bear Not Named Ron: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

It’s nearly May, and you know what that means: Game of Thrones will be ending, Divination Bot will soon return to haunt your sleep with machine-generated nightmares, and the weather will be much less depressing. But before you brush off April 2019 like all the other months you’ve left behind in your rush to the…

Tech News Tom McKay Apr 28

How Physicists Measured the Rarest Event Ever Directly Observed

This past week, scientists announced that they’d made an incredible physics observation using a vat of liquid xenon. It’s officially the rarest nuclear decay—and really, the rarest event of any kind—ever directly measured. How rare? As I wrote in my previous article about the result, “The average amount of time it would take half of…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 26

Dark Matter Detector Makes Incredible Neutrino Observation

A detector designed to hunt for dark matter has made a particle physics observation that will hopefully help physicists establish important truths about our Universe. No, it didn’t spot dark matter, but the new result proves that these ultra-sensitive detectors are valuable to scientists for multiple reasons. Gravity-wise, the Universe behaves as if it contains…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 24

Fermilab Breaks Ground on a New Particle Accelerator to Solve the Mysteries of Neutrinos

Construction began last week on a new particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. The new project will power Fermilab’s flagship neutrino-studying accelerator experiment. The Proton Improvement Plan II, formally approved by the Department of Energy last summer, includes plans for the highest-energy linear particle accelerator to accelerate a continuous stream of protons…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 20

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6 Freaky Particles That Could Fix Physics—If They Exist

Something Mysteriously Powerful Slammed Into Earth in 2023. Scientists Now Have a Theory

China Just Took the Hunt for Elusive ‘Ghost Particles’ to the Next Level

Antarctica’s Ghost Hunters: Inside the World’s Biggest Neutrino Detector

Physicists Catch ‘Ghost Particles’ Bouncing Off Matter in Record-Breaking Experiment

Scientists in Antarctica Detect Deep-Earth Signals That Defy Known Physics

Neutrinos Have No Business Being This Freaking Small

Physicists Detect Most Energetic ‘Ghost Particle’ Ever—30,000 Times More Powerful Than LHC Particles

Massive Caverns Excavated for New Particle Accelerator in South Dakota

Physicists Detect Neutrinos for First Time Using Large Hadron Collider

Russian Scientists Drop a Telescope Into the Deepest Lake on Earth

Why the U.S. Is Betting It All on the Most Puzzling Particle in the Universe

Where Did All the Antimatter Go? Scientists Are Closer to Finding Out

Release the Muons! Physics Breakthrough Will Lead to a New Kind of Particle Collider

The Future of Particle Physics Is Bright, Bleak, and Magical

A Huge Experiment Has ‘Weighed’ the Tiny Neutrino, a Particle That Passes Right Through Matter

Avengers: Endgame, Dark Matter, and a Fake Bear Not Named Ron: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

How Physicists Measured the Rarest Event Ever Directly Observed

Dark Matter Detector Makes Incredible Neutrino Observation

Fermilab Breaks Ground on a New Particle Accelerator to Solve the Mysteries of Neutrinos

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