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Scientist at work: searching for tiny neutrinos in the South Pole's thick ice

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imageIce cold physics: hunting for neutrinos in Antarctica.Sven Lidström, IceCube/NSF, CC BY-NC

Standing at the South Pole is the next-best thing to being on another planet. If you walk a few hundred yards away from the buildings that make up the National Science Foundation’s research station, you see a featureless plain of snow and ice, most...

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