
The Particle That Crosses Everything, and the Materials Learning to Respond
Deep beneath a Japanese mountain, a detector has spent thousands of days listening for one of the universe's faintest signals.
Research news, experiments and explainers — 934 articles on the most elusive particle in the Standard Model.
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Deep beneath a Japanese mountain, a detector has spent thousands of days listening for one of the universe's faintest signals.

As construction advances on one of the world's most ambitious neutrino experiments, attention is increasingly turning toward another essential challenge…

When thousands of delicate sensors shattered inside Japan's Super-Kamiokande detector, the accident became one of the most remarkable engineering setbacks in…

Few scientific pursuits have demanded as much ingenuity as the effort to observe the neutrino, a particle so elusive that trillions pass through every person…

The deepest observations from the James Webb Space Telescope continue to uncover unexpected features of the early universe.

They were looking for a black hole. When a high-energy neutrino arrived at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, catalogued as IC 210922A…

The neutrino passes through everything. The question, it turns out, was never whether it interacts with matter. It does.

A cavern carved into the rock of southern China has become the setting for one of the most precise particle physics measurements ever achieved.

One of modern physics' smallest particles has become the center of a surprisingly large disagreement.

Across the universe, massive stars spend millions of years forging elements in their fiery interiors.

The United Nations has put numbers to what many in the energy and technology industries had been calculating quietly.

For decades, neutrinos occupied a strange territory in physics. They were everywhere, yet almost impossible to capture.