For more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica’s environments as windows into worlds beyond Earth.
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics recognizes Francis Halzen’s vision in building an unusual telescope in Antarctica, as well as the neutrino discoveries it’s made.
An observatory called IceCube was used to produce a view of our galaxy in particles rather than light.
A detector buried under more than a mile of ice in Antarctica has detected a high-energy subatomic neutrino and traced it to its origin, a blazar – a gargantuan black hole more than a billion times more massive than the sun.
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