{"id":120762,"date":"2025-09-05T13:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120762\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:33:23","slug":"the-hunt-for-the-universes-most-elusive-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120762\/","title":{"rendered":"the hunt for the universe\u2019s most elusive particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Neutrinos are elementary particles that are extremely light and rarely interact with anything else. Mostly, they pass invisibly through the universe\u2014hundreds of trillions of neutrinos will have passed through your body as you read this. For physicists, though, these ghostly particles present a big problem. The prevailing theory of particle physics, the Standard Model, predicts that neutrinos should have no mass\u2014but this is not what physicists observe in the real world. Now, scientists at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/interactive\/science-and-technology\/2025\/08\/26\/a-chinese-lab-starts-to-tackle-a-giant-mystery-in-particle-physics?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=babbage&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JUNO<\/a>, an enormous new lab in China, have started to hunt for the elusive particles and, in doing so, they hope to solve this giant conundrum in fundamental physics.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Host: Alok Jha, The Economist\u2019s science and technology editor, with Emilie Steinmark, The Economist\u2019s science correspondent. Contributors: Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux of the University of California, Irvine; Wang Yifang and Yuekun Heng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neutrinos are elementary particles that are extremely light and rarely interact with anything else. Mostly, they pass invisibly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[64,63,292,128],"class_list":["post-120762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}