Latest Gran Sasso d'Italia Stories

Scientists who believed to have found in September that certain neutrinos travel faster than light have ruled out a potential source of error in their measurements after completing a second round of tests, further fracturing Einstein’s theory of relativity. The team’s results, posted on the ArXiv preprint server this morning, confirmed their earlier measurements that neutrinos, sent through the ground from CERN -- on the Swiss-French border -- to the Gran Sasso lab in Italy 450 miles...

An international team including scientists from Princeton University has detected subatomic particles deep within the Earth's interior. The discovery could help geologists understand how reactions taking place in the planet's interior affect events on the surface such as earthquakes and volcanoes. Someday, scientists may know enough about the sources and flow of heat in the Earth to predict events like the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland.The finding, made by the Borexino Collaboration at...