William & Mary physicist Mike Kordosky is a skeptic on the sterile-neutrino question, but he says he would be happy to be proven wrong. He was instrumental in the design of an experiment that was ...

An extensive search for a hypothetical particle has turned up empty. The sterile neutrino is a proposed subatomic particle that could even be a candidate for the mysterious dark matter, and although ...

The award, sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, provides $1.3 million in funding over five years to each of ...

Particle physicists have gone to great lengths — including rowing onto the dark waters of a swimming pool-sized water tank and setting up a base in the Antarctic — to understand one of the universe’s ...

For decades, physicists have suspected an interloper. A reclusive, hypothetical subatomic particle might be creeping into studies of neutrinos, nearly massless particles with no electric charge. A new ...

An observatory buried deep in Antarctic ice has reported the results of its search for an hypothesized particle called the ‘sterile neutrino’: a total blank. The null result, reported on 8 August in ...

SHiP shape: the SPS could have a new experiment by 2026. (Courtesy: Piotr Traczyk) A new experiment to search for hypothetical particles known as sterile neutrinos has been given the green light by ...

LAS CRUCES - A New Mexico State University professor is part of an international research team that recently released the results of an experiment that may support a theory for a fourth fundamental ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica that was designed to study distant cosmic ...

Neutrinos are jerks. Think you understand particle physics? Neutrinos transmute from one form into one another thanks to their inexplicable mass. Think you know the difference between matter and ...

Scientists have produced the firmest evidence yet of so-called sterile neutrinos, mysterious particles that pass through matter without interacting with it at all. The first hints these elusive ...

An experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica that was designed to study distant cosmic objects, has come up empty in a search for a strange particle. The submerged instrument, called the ...