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Scientists detect highest-energy ghost particle ever seen — where did it come from?
Scientists have detected the highest-energy ghost particle neutrino ever, but did it come from a supermassive black hole ...
Discovery: Powerful 'ghost particle' with clues about the universe
Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered through galaxies, stars and anything else in their path.
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Tour the Spectrum
Light, heat, radio transmissions, and medical X-rays may not seem all that similar ... and are delivered by massless particles called photons. The only thing that differentiates one type of ...
High-energy cosmic neutrino detected under Mediterranean Sea
Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...
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From photons to protons: Argonne team makes breakthrough in high-energy particle detection
Researchers at Argonne have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate ...
Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...
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Gamma-ray bursts challenge theoretical models
Gamma rays are highly energetic photons, and very high-energy gamma rays carry with them energies of trillions of electron volts, a level that is hundreds of billions of times greater than visible ...