neutrinos
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Scientists Weighed The Earth Using Ghostly Particles From Space
Scientists have to use some roundabout methods to weigh the Earth and measure what’s inside it — typically, they’ve used sound waves and the strength of gravity to make their calculations. But one team has weighed the Earth in a whole new way: By measuring mysterious cosmic particles that pass through it.
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See The South Pole Message That Alerted Astronomers To The Cosmic-Ray-Spewing Blazar
Scientists just made a huge announcement: Telescopes around the world recorded a source of mysterious, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, the highest-energy particles that hit the Earth. It all started with a text message.
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Shuttered Experiment Shares New View Of Ghostly Neutrino’s Shape-Shifting Behaviour
Can we take a minute to appreciate just how weird neutrinos are? The second most abundant known particle in the universe passes right through most regular matter like a ghost – you get hit with around a quadrillion of them from the Sun every second. Not only that, but neutrinos can even change between three…
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America Is Breaking Ground On An Enormous Neutrino Experiment Today
Particle physics is rarely a cheap-and-easy endeavour. Just think about the Large Hadron Collider, buried deep beneath the Swiss-French border — it cost over $16 billion to find the Higgs Boson. Well, today at 6:20AM AEST, America is breaking ground on another enormous particle physics experiment.