neutrinos
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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 things in space are matter. But we don’t have convincing reasons why there should be so much more matter than antimatter. So where’s all the antimatter?
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Neutrinos Change Their Flavour 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 B. McDonald for discovering that neutrinos can change from one type to another, evidence that — contrary to prior scientific consensus — they must have mass.
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Monster Machines: The Antarctic Neutrino Camera Is About To Get Much Bigger
The University of Wisconsin’s IceCube neutrino detection system has been quietly operating amid Antarctica’s barren tundra for more than four years now. In that time, the fledgling detector has captured more than 100 cosmic neutrinos, many of which originated far outside our Milky Way galaxy. And if project leaders get their way, its imaging quality…
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Ridiculous: Loose Cable Caused Those ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Particles
We know that Einstein always has the last laugh, but this is hilarious: the faster-than-light particles that could have wrecked Einstein’s relativity theory are no more. It was a mistake in the test readings caused by a loose cable.