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An Italian experiment has unveiled evidence that fundamental particles known as neutrinos can travel faster than light. (…)

Neutrinos are fundamental particles that are electrically neutral, rarely interact with other matter, and have a vanishingly small mass. But they are all around us—the sun produces so many neutrinos as a by-product of nuclear reactions that many billions pass through your eye every second.

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