{"id":3928553,"date":"2026-10-22T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-is-a-neutrino-anyway-a-look-at-the-science-behind-this-years-nobel-prize-in-physics\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:04:02","slug":"what-is-a-neutrino-anyway-a-look-at-the-science-behind-this-years-nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-is-a-neutrino-anyway-a-look-at-the-science-behind-this-years-nobel-prize-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a neutrino anyway? A look at the science behind this year&#8217;s Nobel Prize in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If you wanted a Nobel Prize, you would do well to study neutrinos. To date, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded five times to research related to neutrino detection and discovery. This year, Francis Halzen earned the Nobel &#8220;for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-neutrino-science-year-nobel-prize.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted a Nobel Prize, you would do well to study neutrinos. To date, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded five times to research related to neutrino detection and discovery. This year, Francis Halzen earned the Nobel &#8220;for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}