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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 02/28/2026 14:34 EDT

Antarctica's Massive Neutrino Observatory Gets an Upgrade

There's already 5,000 sensors embedded in Antarctica's ice to look for evidence of neutrinos, reports the Washington Post. But in November scientists drilled six new holes at least a mile and a half deep and installed cables with hundreds more light detectors — an upgrade to the massive 15-year-old IceCube Neutrino Observatory to detect the charged particles produced by lower-energy neutrinos interacting with matter:



When they do, the neutrinos produce charged particles that travel through the ice at nea

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