Collaborate Disseminate
Neutrinos are some of the most elusive particles that are well-known to science. These tiny subatomic particles have no electric charge and an extremely small mass, making them incredibly difficult …read more Continue reading Detecting Neutrinos, The Slippery Ghost Particles That Don’t Want To Interact
Although neutrinos are exceedingly common, their near-massless configuration means that their presence is rather ephemeral. Despite billions of them radiating every second towards Earth from sources like our Sun, most …read more Continue reading Detecting Anti-Neutrinos from Distant Fission Reactors Using Pure Water at SNO+
For decades scientists have been building detectors deep underground to search for dark matter. Now one of these experiments, the XENON1T detector, has found an unexpected signal in their data. Although the signal does not stem from dark matter it may still revolutionize physics.
Since the 1980s the majority of …read more
Continue reading The WIMP is Dead, Long Live the Solar Axion!
Additive manufacturing techniques like fused deposition modeling, aka 3D printing, are often used for rapid prototyping. Another advantage is that it can create shapes that are too complex to be made with traditional manufacturing like CNC milling. Now, 3D printing has even found its way into particle physics as an …read more
Neutrinos are some of the strangest particles we have encountered so far. About 100 billion of them are going through every square centimeter on Earth per second but their interaction rate is so low that they can easily zip through the entire planet. This is how they earned the popular …read more
Lederman sold his Nobel Prize at auction for $765,000 in 2015 in order to pay for medical bills. Continue reading Leon Lederman, Nobel-Winning Physicist Who Coined the Term ‘God Particle,’ Dead at 96
NASA went searching for micro black holes in Antarctica. Instead, it detected cosmic rays shooting from the ground and some physicists think it could be evidence of a supersymmetric particle. Continue reading Mysterious Cosmic Rays Shooting from the Ground in Antarctica Could Break Physics
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, along with over a dozen other institutions, shed light on the high-energy universe with multi-messenger astronomy. Continue reading For the First Time, Astronomers Detected a ‘Ghost Particle’ and Tracked It to Its Source
In a live webcast, Arthur McDonald explains how to catch a neutrino. Continue reading Watch a Nobel-Winning Physicist Talking About Hunting Neutrinos in a Mine