Neutrinos change identity mid-flight, which proves they have mass after all

In 2015, Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that neutrinos oscillate between different 'flavours' as they travel through space, switching identity in transit. That switching is only possible if neutrinos carry mass, directly contradicting the Standard Model, which had assumed they were massless.

— Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald, Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 — Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2015

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