In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

New data from the NOvA experiment at Fermilab in the US contain no evidence for so-called “sterile” neutrinos, in line with ...

But unexpected experimental results made physicists suspect there might be another neutrino flavor, called a sterile neutrino because it appears immune to three of the four known "forces." ...

Rabbi Sacks’s comments on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day came shortly after the University published a news story on Dr Evans’s groundbreaking work to help locate the elusive ‘sterile’ neutrino.

The solution to this puzzle might lie in the humble neutrino, an elementary particle with no electric charge and almost invisible, as it rarely interacts with matter, passing through everything on ...