Neutrino mass measurements remain one of the most challenging endeavours in contemporary physics. Direct measurement techniques, particularly those probing the endpoint of the tritium β-decay spectrum ...

Scientists have been able to show that the CRES method is suitable for determining the neutrino mass and has already set an upper limit for this fundamental quantity in a first measurement -- an ...

The humble neutrino, an elusive subatomic particle that passes effortlessly through normal matter, plays an outsized role among the particles that comprise our universe. To fully explain how our ...

A prototype porous-silicon diode that may lead to a betavoltaic-based BetaBattery with a useful life spanning several decades has been created by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Rochester ...

Halloween horror movies often feature ghosts slipping through walls unnoticed by those in the dwellings they haunt. At the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, scientists seek ...

Physicists want to ramp up their efforts to weigh neutrinos, which are perhaps the most mysterious of all elementary particles. Currently, only one experiment in the world has a shot at making such a ...

Physicist Björn Lehnert from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory talks to Richard Blaustein about what a new precise measurement of the neutrino means for particle physics Weighty matters: ...

For the first time, scientists observe a new and rare decay mode where oxygen-13 breaks into three helium nuclei and a proton following beta decay. Scientists have previously observed interesting ...