Three-pronged attack: Antarctic Science Teams Search Out ‘Particle of the Mystic’

The Antarctic Sun

The dream of unlocking neutrinos’ secrets has kept scientists tossing and turning since the subatomic particles were first theorized in the 1930s. The vision has been there, but the technology to materialize that vision has not. Three teams of scientists are now preparing to use Antarctic ice as the key to open the strongbox that has contained extraterrestrial neutrinos’ mysteries since the early universe — even though no one is sure what they
will reveal.

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