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IceCube Just Spent 10 Years Searching for Dark Matter
Neutrinos are tricky little blighters that are hard to observe. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica was built to detect…
Using Jupiter as a Dark Matter Detector
The nature of dark matter has been a hotly debated topic for decades. If it’s a heavy, slow moving particle…
Finally! Webb Finds a Neutron Star from Supernova 1987A
I can remember seeing images of SN1987A as it developed back in 1987. It was the explosion of a star,…
Could Forests Become Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino Detectors?
I really don’t know how to introduce this article. Neutrinos are elementary particles and are electrically neutral. They are produced…
A New Observatory Will Spot Core-Collapse Supernovae Before They Explode
Although we haven't had a supernova explode nearby in a few hundred years, it's just a matter of time before…
What are Leptons?
According to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, all matter is composed is hadrons (which are made up of elementary…
What Are The Parts Of An Atom?
Thanks to centuries of ongoing research, modern scientists have a very good understanding of how atoms work and what their…
Shape-shifting neutrinos earn physicists the 2015 Nobel
What do Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Paul Dirac, and Marie Curie have in common? They each won the Nobel prize in…
How are Energy and Matter the Same?
As Einstein showed us, light and matter and just aspects of the same thing. Matter is just frozen light. And…
NOvA Experiment Nabs Its First Neutrinos
Neutrinos are some of the most abundant, curious, and elusive critters in particle physics. Incredibly lightweight -- nigh massless, according…