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Neutrino Discovery Nobel Prize for Physics, Takaaki Kajita, Arthur McDonald

Noted Japanese and Canadian Physicists Get Nobel Prize for 'Flipping' Neutrino Discovery

Japan's Takaaki Kajita and Canada's Arthur McDonald - both physicists - were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for their joint discovery that neutrinos have mass after all. Before their discovery, it was generally believed that these elementary particles did not have mass.

New tabletop detector

New Tabletop Particle Detector Can See Single Electrons

The process could aid scientists achieve an even greater feat: measuring the mass of the elusive neutrino.

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