Science Graphic of the Week: Capturing a Super Energetic Neutrino Named Big Bird

You’re looking at a neutrino named Big Bird. This particle, which has an energy 1,000 times that of the protons smashed together at the LHC, traveled across the universe before hitting an atom at the South Pole and being recorded at an enormous underground observatory named IceCube. Neutrinos are tiny ghostly particles. Billions of them […]

















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