{"id":226745,"date":"2025-12-09T01:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/after-decades-of-mystery-scientists-debunk-a-major-theory-about-a-bizarre-particle"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:25:18","slug":"after-decades-of-mystery-scientists-debunk-a-major-theory-about-a-bizarre-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/after-decades-of-mystery-scientists-debunk-a-major-theory-about-a-bizarre-particle","title":{"rendered":"After Decades of Mystery, Scientists Debunk a Major Theory About a Bizarre Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-decades-of-mystery-scientists-debunk-a-major-theory-about-a-bizarre-particle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: the sterile neutrino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: the sterile neutrino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}