Astronomers Trace Elusive High-Energy Neutrino to Star-Forming Galaxy in Early Universe
JCMT0402-0424, a dusty starburst galaxy around 11 billion light-years away, is the strongest candidate yet for the source…
CERN Physicists Pin Down W Boson Mass with Unprecedented Precision
Using data from over one billion proton-colliding events collected at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists have measured…
A ‘Ghost Particle’ May Be Holding Reality Together—And It Breaks the Rules of Gravity
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are…
‘Impossible’ Particle That Crashed into Earth With 100,000 Times the Energy of the LHC May Actually Be from an Exploding Black Hole
Illustration of exploading primordial black hole. Credit: ZME Science/AI-generated. In 2023, a subatomic particle smashed into the Mediterranean…
Elusive Neutrinos Transform Carbon Into Nitrogen in Never-Before-Seen Interaction
The mysterious “ghost particles” known as neutrinos have been observed interacting with matter in a new way, despite…
This Massive Sphere Buried Under a Mountain in China Just Caught ‘Ghost’ Particles Breaking Physics
This stitched photo taken on Oct. 9, 2024 shows the central detector of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory…
How shipwrecks and ancient Roman lead help physicists search for dark matter
When a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck was found off the Sardinian coast in 1988, it didn’t just thrill archaeologists…
China tests deep-sea ‘Spider’ to track ghostly cosmic neutrinos
Chinese scientists have made a major step in the hunt for elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos. Researchers from…
Physicists Introduce Concept of Neutrino Laser
Super-cooling radioactive atoms could produce a laser-like neutrino beam, according to a duo of physicists from MIT and…
Ghost particles could lose cover as scientists use new algorithm
For more than a century, scientists have known that Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays, charged particles…
Researchers observe the eye of Sauron in space
Astrophysicists are still puzzling over how massive particles get turbo-boosted, and how the universe churns out ultra-energetic photons…