But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

A nuclear power plant in Liebstadt, Switzerland, hosted the CONUS+ neutrino detector. Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a device weighing just a few kilograms, orders of ...

A big detector to measure tiny particles The $300 million detector in Kaiping, China, took more than nine years to build. It is located 2,297 feet underground to protect it from pesky cosmic rays and ...

JUNO is equipped with a liquid scintillator detector encapsulated within a massive acrylic sphere measuring 35.4 meters in diameter. This sphere is suspended within an even larger, 44-meter-deep pool ...

Kevin Wood, a Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley Lab and run coordinator for the 2×2 prototype and Brooke Russell, now the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Special Fellow in Physics at MIT and the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KAIPING, China (AP) — Underneath a granite ...

Deep under the Black Hills, the United States is turning a historic gold mine into what is effectively a colossal ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle ...

An extraordinary event consistent with a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 x 1015 electron volts or 220 million billion electron volts), was detected on February 13, 2023, by the ...