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IceCube detector finds neutrinos from the Milky Way for the first time

A neutrino detector in Antarctica has found heaps of high-energy neutrinos coming from distant galaxies, but none from within our own – until now

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What was the universe's first second like? These particles can tell us

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Antineutrinos collide with protons inside the detector which creates positrons that move through water followed by a blue glow.

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Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear reactor 240 km away

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The 50-year quest to find the particle that almost broke physics

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Front view of the IceCube Lab at twilight, with a starry sky showing a glimpse of the Milky Way overhead and sunlight lingering on the horizon.

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Neutrinos have been spotted coming from a strange, shrouded galaxy

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Neutron stars may fire out neutrino beams like a laser light show

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A tiny graphene device could detect neutrinos from the big bang

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Bottom view of the LEGEND-200 liquid argon cryostat and the enclosing water tank. The inner walls of the water tank and the outer wall of the cryostat are covered with a wavelength-shifting mirror film. The purpose is to shift and reflect the light produced by muons via the Cherenkov effect in the water. The photons are detected by photosensors. The purpose of this detector component is to detect and identify cosmic ray muons, some of which still reach the experiment despite being located deep underground the Gran Sasso mountain. (fyi: The muon flux is reduced by a factor 106 (one million) by the rock). If not identified, the muon induced events could mimic the searched signal events.

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This gleaming experiment may solve the cosmic mystery of antimatter

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Sterile neutrinos could explain dark matter – if we can find them

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Sterile neutrinos could explain dark matter – if we can find them

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Physicists fail to find mysterious 'sterile neutrino' particles

After decades of looking, physicists are no closer to discovering theorised particles that could help solve ongoing problems in physics

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We've spotted a neutrino blasted out by a black hole shredding a star

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Neutrinos may explain why we don’t live in an antimatter universe

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Neutrinos determined where galaxies formed in the early universe

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Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics

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