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Neutrinos could shed light on why the Universe has so much more matter than antimatter

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A major finding in particle physics reminds us of the importance of robust preliminary results — and paves the way for more exciting discoveries.

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X You have full access to this article via your institution. Download PDF Inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector during work on the detectors. Credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. Tokyo Nuclear-weapons physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines considered the neutrino “the smallest bit of material reality ever conceived of by man” [sic]. That was in a commentary 1 for Nature in 1956, published a few months after they published a paper in Science 2 reporting the experimental discovery of neutrinos. These subatomic particles lack an ele

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