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ROME, Italy, Aug. 22, 2007 -- Fresh evidence that neutrinos oscillate (transform from one state to another) before arriving at Earth adds weight to present theories about the nature of neutrinos and the inner workings of the sun and other stars. Low-energy solar neutrinos -- subatomic particles produced in the core of the sun -- and the rate the particles hit our planet have been detected and measured in real time by a team of more than 100 researchers, including National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported investigators at Princeton University and Virginia Tech. They operated the so-called Borexino experiment in one...Read full article

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    Published: August 2007
    Glossary
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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