Transforming Our DNA - 2016 Annual Report

Science News | MARCH 19, 2016 PARTICLE GHOSTS

Deep inside a granite mountain at Daya Bay, a nuclear reactor facility not far fromHong Kong, sensitive detectors (shown) are seeking a new form of neutrino, one of nature’s most ghostly and abundant elementary particles. Potentially transformative results, reported fromDaya Bay in 2016, suggested the possibility of a fourth type of neutrino, but evidence for this “sterile neutrino” is still mixed.

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