Neutrino Timing Glitch?
You may recall the kerfuffle last September when physicists connected with the OPERA experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy produced a paper suggesting that neutrinos might travel at...
View ArticleNeutrino Physics in a Small Universe
I’ve only just got time for a quick lunchtime post before I head off to attend an afternoon of Mathematics presentations, but it’s a one of those nice bits of news that I like to mention on here from...
View ArticleHot News! Supernova in M82
Very exciting news today - a supernova has gone off in Messier 82. In fact, according to this sequence of images from Japan it actually started to brighten about a week ago: Being arranged in Japanese...
View ArticleNOvA and Neutrinos
Yesterday’s Grauniad blog post by Jon Butterworth about neutrino physics reminded me that I forgot to post about an important milestone in the development of the NOvA Experiment which involves several...
View ArticleThe Nobel Prize for Neutrino Oscillations
Well the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2015 has been announced. It has been awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for.. the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which prove that...
View ArticleNewsflash: New Chair at STFC
As a quick piece of community service I thought I’d pass on the news of the appointment of a new Executive Chair for the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), namely Professor Mark Thomson...
View ArticleA source of high-energy neutrinos!
Before I go for a lie down here is a video that goes with the discovery of the first astrophysical source of high-energy neutrinos! You can find the two Science papers relating to the discovery here...
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