The Huge, Pricey Detectors That Capture Tiny Neutrinos
Neutrinos are devilishly hard to detect. They’re the most antisocial of particles: The ghostly things will pass right through entire planets without interacting with a single molecule. So if physicists want to learn anything about them, they have to construct super-elaborate — and super-expensive — detectors to catch even a few of the particles as they fly by.

August 25, 2015 at 09:48AM
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