How to Use neutrino in a Sentence

neutrino

noun
  • Why do neutrinos have mass at all?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
  • There are no known right-handed neutrinos.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • To do so, neutrinos must have mass, which the laws of physics failed (and still fail) to predict.
    — Simon Frantz, Quanta Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • The neutrino is nearly massless and flies through space at almost the speed of light.
    — Mark Bowen, Scientific American, 12 July 2018
  • The third flavor of neutrino, the tau neutrino, is the chameleon of the trio.
    — Doug Cowen, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The idea that neutrinos were flying through me every second blew my mind.
    — Adam Frank, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Our bodies are hit with trillions of neutrinos by the second.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Scientists searched the world for this neutrino.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • So the signature of the collision is a muon, a neutrino, and four jets.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
  • That tiny chance means that reliably detecting neutrinos takes many more atoms than are in your body.
    — Matt Von Hippel, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Even more exciting was such neutrinos had never before been traced to its source.
    — Smithsonian, 12 July 2018
  • This time, the neutrinos seemed to be changing fast enough to oscillate while crossing a room.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • These neutrinos arrive at Earth from the far reaches of the cosmos.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Scientists say the study of neutrinos is still in its formative stages.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The universe is awash with neutrinos that have been cruising through space since the Big Bang.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 13 May 2026
  • Scientists caught one of those neutrinos in the ice cube and were able to trace it back to a special type of galaxy called a blazar.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
  • So the two simplest logical paths for explaining neutrino mass led to the same place.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • And neutrinos really fit the bill.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The neutrino laser adapts this idea but replaces photons with neutrinos.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But neutrinos have proven more than capable of bending the life path of a scientist.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The sensors look for streaks of light made by particles called muons, which are created when neutrinos hit the ice.
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2019
  • This became known as the solar neutrino problem.
    — Simon Frantz, Quanta Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • What about non-zero neutrino masses?
    — Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Physicists can’t even say how the three neutrino masses are ordered, let alone nail down their exact values.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
  • Some possibilities for what else a neutrino could do would be as follows.
    — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
  • However, the results showed no trace of a sterile neutrino.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Detecting neutrinos on Earth allows researchers to trace them back to their sources.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
  • But every once in a while, a neutrino will hit into an atom of that ice, and breaks it apart, there’s a momentary flash of an eerie blue light.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 12 July 2018
  • If more neutrinos were present, then our models show more protons and fewer neutrons would exist as a result.
    — Anne-Katherine Burns, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
  • But an even more severe example is the neutrino, which interacts only through the weak force.
    — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026

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