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IceCube is built on decades of research into tiny ‘ghost particles’ – but it was the first to find neutrinos coming from deep space

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory sits on tons of clear ice at the South Pole, allowing scientists to detect neutrino interactions. Cmichel67/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA All visible matter in the universe – stars, planets, you, me – is made up of some combination of 12 fundamental particles. The lightest and most abundant of these are neutrinos. They are also the least visible. With every tick of the clock, more than 100 billion of these “little neutral ones” stealthily zip through you, with…

Where: Japan, Canada, Stockholm

Exact coordinates

japan: 36.200, 138.250
canada: 56.130, -106.350
stockholm: 59.330, 18.070

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