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KM3NeT inferred an energy of about 220 PeV for a neutrino recorded in 2023. IceCube’s September 2026 follow-up found no supporting emission from its direction. The event’s energy remains uncertain,…
Francis Halzen’s Nobel Prize highlights a new way to study cosmic accelerators. IceCube detects their elusive neutrinos, but a detector signal is only the first step. Identifying a source requires…
Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for the work that made IceCube possible and revealed high-energy neutrinos from the cosmos. Thousands of sensors frozen into Antarctic…
For thirty years supersymmetry was the safe bet for what comes after the Standard Model. It predicted a heavier partner for every known particle, it solved several deep problems at…
In 59 days of running, JUNO caught 2,379 antineutrinos and pinned down two oscillation parameters 1.6 times more precisely than every previous experiment combined. It was not built for either…
BESIII’s missing K*(892) decay signal supports a flavour-singlet argument for X(2370). It does not uniquely label the state as a glueball. The limit’s scope, production models and an exploratory hybrid…
In 2019 the reference estimate for breaking RSA-2048 was 20 million noisy qubits running for eight hours. In March 2026 a Caltech and Oratomic team put the figure at 10,000.…
Between early 2025 and mid-2026, quantum processors have gone from simulating toy models of particle physics to watching confinement, string breaking, and hadron scattering play out in real time. These…
A fourth neutrino that feels no weak force explained thirty years of anomalies. MicroBooNE excluded it at 95% confidence and KATRIN found no kink in 36 million electrons. The eV-scale…
Some cosmological fits push the total neutrino mass towards or below the minimum required by oscillations. KATRIN measures a different effective mass. Understanding the tension means keeping the datasets, confidence…
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