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Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle proposed for decades to explain puzzling neutrino behavior. Their high-precision ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...