neutrinos

Chinese Lab to Study Mysterious Particle; China Won’t Renounce Use of Force on Taiwan

An underground lab in China is researching neutrinos: particles smaller than atoms and thought to contain even more energy. A foreign associate of America's National Academy of Sciences is leading ...

October 16, 2024BY Tiffany Meier
Star Swallowed by Supermassive Black Hole Sends Ghostly Particle to Earth

A high-energy particle, thought to have been sent our way by a supermassive black hole hundreds of millions ...

March 3, 2021BY Lu Xiao
What the Universe’s Most Elusive Particles Can Tell Us About the Universe’s Most Energetic Objects

In 2012, a tiny flash of light was detected deep beneath the Antarctic ice. A burst of neutrinos ...

April 26, 2016BY Ivy Shih
Device Measures Radiation From 1 Electron

The microwave oven has been around for almost 80 years. When it heats food or liquid, the frequency ...

May 4, 2015BY Julie Cohen