Neutrinos 'may soon be measured accurately'

After more than 200 nights of galaxy-gazing and thousands of calculations, an international team has published their new study that they claim has made a remarkable headway in the way the mass of neutrinos are measured.

The study, published in the 'Physical Review D Rapid Communication', concludes cosmological galaxy measurements are more effective than laboratory experiments on Earth when it comes to constraining neutrino mass for measurement.

Neutrinos are the subatomic-sized fundamental particles floating in the universe and the lightest massive known particles, yet they are traditionally treated as not having any mass.

Lead author Dr Signe Riemer-Sorensen at the University of Queensland said their study would allow researchers to gain a more accurate and highly sensitive picture of neutrino mass, and this could lead to new understandings of the universe.