Cosmological Mysteries - UH Physicists are Asking Big Questions about the Universe January 7, 2021 $1.65 Million Grant Will Fund Projects in Neutrino Oscillation You could be forgiven if you haven’t thought much about neutrinos. The subatomic particles are produced by the sun and by stars, moving unnoticed through rock, metal, air – even through people. Lisa Koerner, a particle physicist at UH, is leading a $1.65 million project related to the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, known as DUNE. But maybe you should know more about them. International efforts to understand them better could answer one of the enduring mysteries about the nature of the universe: if, as scientists believe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created during the Big Bang, why didn’t they cancel each other out, leaving nothing? Instead, matter persisted, and here we are.