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glenc
11-07-2012, 03:15 AM
“You hold up your finger and a hundred billion neutrinos pass through it every second from the sun,” said Jenni Adams, a physicist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, who works on IceCube...
Before IceCube was completed in 2010, scientists had observed just 14 neutrinos. With the huge new instrument, paired with another telescope in the Mediterranean, hundreds of neutrinos have been detected...
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/space/ice-telescope-hunts-for-space-secrets-1.1338258#.T_xia5GDTy0