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Inside the Dark Matter Lab Buried Over a Mile Underground
Motherboard visits SNOLAB, where scientists are searching for dark matter, supernovas, and neutrinos inside an active mine.
Physicists Stretch Quantum Superposition from Chicago to Minnesota
A long-distance experiment offers new verification for fundamental quantum mechanics.
Antarctic IceCube Experiment Comes Up Empty on Neutrino Ghost Hunt
Sterile neutrinos, a once-promising dark matter candidate, just might not exist.
Astrophysicists Trace 'Big Bird' Neutrino to Ancient Exploding Galaxy
A single particle, born 9.1 billion light-years away.
Watch a Nobel-Winning Physicist Talking About Hunting Neutrinos in a Mine
In a live webcast, Arthur McDonald explains how to catch a neutrino.
Why Neutrino Detectors Look So Damn Cool
Brilliant arrays of golden photomultiplier tubes amount to astrophysical ghost detectors.
How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples with Staggering Amounts of Data
Sensors collect terabytes of raw data every day in an attempt to discover the source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.
How A Pair of Old Mines Helped Win a Nobel Prize in Physics
How do you avoid cosmic background radiation from skewing your research? Do your research a kilometre or more underground.
Japan's 279 Kilometer T2K Experiment Offers Three Antineutrino Detections
Hunting the ghostly particles that may explain why the universe even exists.
Antineutrino Detectors May Offer a Foolproof Way of Monitoring Iran's Reactors
Also: cheaper, less invasive, and more reliable.
The World's Most Powerful Neutrino Experiment Will Stretch Across the Midwest
What new physics we can learn from a neutrino beam fired underground from Chicago to South Dakota.
The Particle Blasting Experiment That's Trying to Determine Why Matter Exists
By bombarding a 14,000-ton plastic structure with cosmic rays, from 500 miles away.