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Topic: Particle Physics

Massive black holes in nebula (Getty Images/ sakkmesterke)

Why dark matter's mysteries persist

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, hosts the computers collecting raw data. Due to satellite bandwidth allocations, the first level of reconstruction and event filtering happens in near real time in this lab. Only events selected as interesting for physics studies are sent to UW–Madison, where they are prepared for used by any member of the IceCube Collaboration. (Felipe Pedreros/IceCube/NSF)

Weird neutrinos are baffling physicists

Nicole Karlis
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Scientists harness quantum spookiness

Robert Young - The Conversation
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Honey, who shrunk the proton?

Keith A. Spencer
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Science defeats stupidity!

Andrew O'Hehir
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Hunting the ghost particle

Ray Jayawardhana
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