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Sterile Neutrino Prediction Muddled by Latest Experiments

✇NYT: Science
By:Kenneth Chang
4 December 2025 at 15:27
Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter.

© Reidar Hahn/Fermilab

Workers installing the MicroBooNE time-projection chamber into the experiment’s cryostat at Fermilab in 2013.

The Forgotten Nuclear Weapon Tests That Trump May Seek to Revive

✇NYT: Science
By:William J. Broad
24 November 2025 at 15:19
Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs.

© Los Alamos National Laboratory

Technicians in an underground test site in Nevada secured the door before execution of the 2021 Red Sage-Nightshade experiment, a subcritical nuclear test.
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