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

Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear reactor 240 km away

6 March 2023

A water-based detector has been used to spot antineutrinos from nuclear reactions hundreds of kilometres away. It could be used to monitor distant nuclear activities
A rotating neutron star

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

26 October 2022

Neutron stars cool down by emitting neutrinos. A mathematical model now suggests the neutrinos come out in focused beams rather than a uniform emission
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A tiny graphene device could detect neutrinos from the big bang

10 May 2022

Neutrinos from the early universe have never been detected directly but a device that uses the atom-thick material graphene might be able to change that

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