The bartender says, “We don’t serve your kind in here” A faster-than-light neutrino walks into a bar … The media is champing at the bit to proclaim a discovery of faster-than-light travel by a subatomic…
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In the past week, many media outlets have reported the discovery of an antimatter “belt” circling the earth. A range of potential uses for this belt have already been floated – perhaps the most exciting…
Theoretical physics is full of mysteries and unknowns. In the case of some particles, we can predict their existence even if we can’t find them. Such is the status of the Higgs boson. And yet detecting…
There’s nothing like an unexpected result to get physicists excited. So in 2008, when some strange behaviour was detected from a rarely-produced particle known as the “top quark”, there was much interest…
Of all the known particles in our universe, neutrinos are perhaps the most elusive; their origins are mysterious, their purpose unknown and they are notoriously difficult to detect. You’ll already know…
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Post Doctoral Research Associate, Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, University of Adelaide
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Postgraduate Student, The University of Melbourne
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Professor; Research Director ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies, Australian National University
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Professor of Astrophysics, University of Adelaide
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Postgraduate Research Student in High Energy Astrophysics, University of Adelaide
