Scientists Weighed the Earth Using Ghostly Particles From Space
Scientists have to use some roundabout methods to weigh the Earth and measure what’s inside it—typically, they’ve used…
Astronomers Propose Huge New Telescope System to Understand the Most Energetic Particles Ever Detected
Astronomers have proposed a truly enormous telescope consisting of 200,000 radio receivers around the world, which…
New Particle Could Explain 'Unusual' Antarctic Weather Balloon Detection
An enormous weather balloon in Antarctica spotted what looked like a high-energy particle from outer space striking the…
See the South Pole Message That Alerted Astronomers to the Cosmic-Ray-Spewing Blazar
Today, scientists made a huge announcement: Telescopes around the world recorded a source of mysterious,…
Cosmic Ray Mystery Finally Cracked Thanks to Supermassive Black Hole Beaming Energy Straight at Earth
Every so often, protons and even entire atomic nuclei strike the Earth with extremely high energies—much higher than…
Physicists Are Excited About Fresh Evidence for a New 'Sterile' Fundamental Particle
Neutrinos are ghostly, mysterious shape-shifters. New evidence bolsters the existence of an even ghostlier, “sterile”…
Shuttered Experiment Shares New View of Ghostly Neutrino’s Shape-Shifting Behavior
Can we take a minute to appreciate just how weird neutrinos are? The second most abundant known particle in the…
Strangely, These Atoms Seem to Have Different Masses Depending on How They're Measured
When it comes to understanding the universe, a crucial property of stuff, whatever that stuff might be, is its mass.…
Ghost Particles Detected on Far Side of Earth Bolsters Crucial Physics Theory
If we’re ever going to truly understand how our Universe works, we’ll need to take lots of different measurements, but…
Physicists Prove 40-Year-Old Prediction With Incredible Neutrino Observation
Physicists make a lot of statements about stuff they hope will happen, but might not happen in their lifetimes. One…
America Is Breaking Ground on an Enormous Neutrino Experiment Today
Particle physics is rarely a cheap-and-easy endeavor. Just think about the Large Hadron Collider, buried deep beneath…
Scientists Are Getting Closer to Understanding Where All the Antimatter Has Gone
You and me, we’re matter. Everyone you know is matter. Everything on Earth, spare a few particles, is matter. Most of…
The Hunt for Exotic Fourth Neutrino Comes Up Empty
It’s been a rough few weeks of null results for physicists. First, a promising underground experiment failed to find…
Scientists at Fermilab Are About to Start Shooting Neutrinos Through the Earth
Fermilab outside Chicago will soon begin its Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), and what it hopes to…
Neutrinos Change Their Flavor and Snag Another Nobel Prize
Early this morning the world learned that the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur…
This Year's Nobel Prize for Physics Celebrates Neutrinos
The 2015 Nobel Prize in physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for their work on neutrino oscillations.…
Glowing Antineutrino Map Shows How Radioactive the Earth Is
It’s often said that we know less about Earth’s deep interior than we do about the surface of Mars (or at this point, ma…
Scientists Confirm the Existence of Cosmic Neutrinos
A team of Antarctic scientists has just verified the existence of cosmic neutrinos — tiny, energetic particles that…
Two Physicists Wanted To Explode A Nuclear Bomb To Find Neutrinos
In the 1950s, two physicists decided that they would find the elusive “neutrino” they’d heard so much about. They did…
Are You Commuting Through A Physics Experiment?
If you are using the Holborn Tube Station in England, you are getting to work via the site of an important part of…