Neutrinos are extremely lightweight and electrically neutral particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter. Due to ...

Three years ago, in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the passage of an "ultra-energetic" cosmic neutrino was observed—the ...

A single particle cut through the Mediterranean in February 2023 carrying an almost absurd amount of energy. Detected deep ...

The KM3NeT Collaboration, operating a partially built neutrino detector on the Mediterranean seafloor off the coast of Sicily, has recorded a cosmic neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV, ...

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever attempted, built to study particles so elusive they pass through the Earth almost without a trace. By ...

Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos ...

A blazar is an active galactic nucleus, essentially a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart, devouring ...

Queen’s physics researchers are part of a global experiment that will use the Pacific Ocean to study some of the most elusive particles in the universe.

After a new upgrade, a neutrino observatory in Antarctica may identify dormant supermassive black holes within our galaxy.

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...