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'I like a challenge': CERN physicist on the draw of weird antimatter

'I like a challenge': CERN physicist on the draw of weird antimatter

27 November 2019

CERN physicist Jeffrey Hangst spends his days making antimatter. He explains why the world is safe in his hands – and why he plays in a band called Diracula
The main spectrometer of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment

The mystery of the mass of the neutrino could soon be solved

22 November 2019

We have a refined estimate for the mass of the neutrino, the most abundant massive particle in the Universe: its mass is 500,000 times less than an electron

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