Deep beneath South Dakota, a former gold mine is being reborn as one of the coldest and most ambitious science facilities on ...

A neutrino slammed into Earth in 2023 with so much energy that it looked almost unreal. The particle carried about 220 ...

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, hosted by the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National ...

STORY: Inside this underground laboratory, China hopes to win a global race to solve one of the biggest mysteries in particle physics. The $300 million Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, or ...

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in ...

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Workers have finished excavating the caverns in South Dakota that will house four particle detectors for the Fermilab-based Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. The three caverns, located a mile ...

Ciaran O'Hare scribbles symbols using colored markers across his whiteboard like he's trying to solve a crime—or perhaps planning one. He bounces around the edges of the board, slowly filling it with ...

For three decades, a riddle has followed neutrinos, the near-weightless particles that stream through Earth by the trillions each second. They change identities as they fly, shifting among three known ...

Batavia, Ill.-Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have found a surprising discrepancy between predictions for the behavior of neutrinos and the way the ...

The sun is healthy and strong, but physicists will have to change some of the basic assumptions they have made about how the universe works. These are the results released today from the latest study ...