Month: February 2016
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A net for neutrinos at the bottom of the sea
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Casting a net for neutrinos The KM3NeT experiment will catch the elusive particles using the Mediterranean Sea For Symmetry Magazine: Like ordinary telescopes, KM3NeT operates in darkness—but there the…
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A discovery that made a thousand scientists burst into cheers and tears
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] It’s not every day that we get to usher in an entirely new branch of astronomy. Yesterday, members of the LIGO collaboration announced the first direct detection of gravitational…
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Why are neutrino masses so tiny?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Neutrinos on a seesaw A possible explanation for the lightness of neutrinos could help answer some big questions about the universe. For Symmetry Magazine: Mass is a fundamental property…
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Could gravity have mass?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Might gravity have mass? From Physics World: When confronted with something unexplained in the data, scientists face several possibilities. Maybe there’s an error and the result is spurious. Maybe…