How did the possibility of sterile neutrinos even become a thing? It all dates back to the so-called “solar neutrino problem.

High-precision measurements from the KATRIN experiment strongly limit the existence of light sterile neutrinos and narrow the search for new physics. Neutrinos are extremely difficult to detect, yet ...

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter.

Yvonne Wong receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Michael Schmidt receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Physicists searching for evidence of a “light sterile neutrino ...

After years of searching, scientists at the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE) have ruled out the possibility of ...

The IceCube experiment reports ruling out to a high degree of certainty the existence of a theoretical low-mass sterile neutrino. This week scientists on the world’s largest neutrino experiment, ...

Avi Loeb links the strange behaviour of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS with the rise and fall of the sterile neutrino debate in modern physics.

Trail gone cold: IceCube has found no evidence for sterile neutrinos. (Courtesy: Jamie Yang, IceCube Collaboration) Researchers have found no evidence of sterile neutrinos in two years’ worth of data ...

Tantalizing hints have regularly turned up to indicate the existence of a sterile neutrino—a theoretical fourth type of neutrino separate from the three predicted by the Standard Model. Researchers ...

You might have seen recent headlines about a “sterile neutrino” and been confused. Regular readers know that I am a fan of neutrinos, in part because they are non-trinary: they come in three flavours ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the physics of nothing, everything, and the stuff in between. Ordinary neutrinos are the lightest and least interactive of ...