Neutrinos are abundant subatomic particles that are famous for passing through anything and everything, only very rarely interacting with matter. About 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second. Now, scientists ...
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Nov 22, 2017
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For a decade, astronomers have puzzled over ephemeral but incredibly powerful radio bursts from space.
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Sep 25, 2017
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A large international team of researchers—including Kansas State University scientists—is turning to tiny particles to address big questions about dark matter, black holes and the origins of the universe.
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Jul 25, 2017
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Scientists from the NOvA collaboration have announced an exciting new result that could improve our understanding of the behavior of neutrinos.
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Aug 8, 2016
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In the second it takes to read these words, 65 billion neutrinos will shoot through every square centimeter of your body. Luckily, these infinitesimal particles don't do any harm—they pass through us, as they do with most ...
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Jul 21, 2016
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The sources of the high-energy cosmic neutrinos that are detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory buried in the Antarctic ice may be hidden from observations of high-energy gamma rays, new research reveals. These high-energy ...
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Feb 18, 2016
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In 1991 physicists first detected a cosmic ray – a high-energy particle from space – with an energy beyond anything they'd dreamed of. They called it the Oh-My-God particle.
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Jan 11, 2016
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Studying the highest-energy particles in the cosmos provides scientists with a way to test how well they understand the cutting edge of physics. Recently, scientists using a giant particle detector at the South Pole have ...
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Oct 21, 2015
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Yale University physicists are part of two international research efforts at the South Pole—the IceCube Collaboration and DM-Ice—that have announced new observations on cosmic neutrinos and the nature of dark matter.
General Physics
Sep 11, 2015
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Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year to gather powerful new evidence in support of ...
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Aug 20, 2015
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