Of all the known particles in the universe, only photons outnumber neutrinos. Despite their abundance, however, neutrinos are hard to catch and inspect, as they interact with matter only very weakly.

The humble neutrino, an elusive subatomic particle that passes effortlessly through normal matter, plays an outsized role among the particles that comprise our universe. To fully explain how our ...

When it comes to weighing elementary particles, a set of scales is not much use. The mass of the electron, for instance, is about 10-30 kg and can only be determined by relying on its mathematical ...

Neutrinos are tiny particles that barely interact with anything. Trillions of them pass through your body every second, yet you’ll never notice. They have no electric charge and barely any mass. Still ...

Scientists do not know the actual mass of neutrinos, but the value affects the universe’s evolution. This new upper limit of the neutrino mass from this direct measurement does not depend on any ...

To understand neutrinos, it pays to be small-minded. The subatomic particles are so lightweight, they’re almost massless. They’re a tiny fraction of the mass of the next lightest particle, the ...

As I am sure all of you know, the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded yesterday to Arthur McDonald and Takaaki Kajita “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have ...

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A neutrino with almost unimaginable energy slammed into Earth in early 2023, carrying roughly 220 petaelectronvolts, far ...