I am again live-blogging reactions to the announcement of the Nobel Prize. Join me early on the morning of October 6 (EST) for the announcement and some reactions!

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Deep beneath the surface of the Earth in Sudbury, SNOLAB scientist Erica Caden explains why solar neutrinos are playing hard to get.

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(SUDBURY) — One of North America’s most popular television and YouTube educational series paid a visit to SNOLAB recently to learn about solar neutrinos, and the people who research them.

Physics grants saw a smaller drop in grants awarded this year compared to other fields within NSF’s Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.

For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass in the universe but has never been directly detected. Determining exactly what it is remains one of the biggest questions about our world.