Why do neutrinos, these elementary particles, sometimes seem to act in such a puzzling way? For decades, physicists have been faced with this puzzle, observing behaviors that do not fit ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of ...

LUX-ZEPLIN, one of the largest dark matter detectors in the world, is based at the Sanford Underground Research Facility ...

Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious particles in the universe, often called "ghost particles" because they rarely ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...