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Expanding a neutrino hunt in the South Pole

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Underneath the vast, frozen landscape of the South Pole lies IceCube, a gigantic observatory dedicated to finding ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos. Neutrinos stream through the Earth from all directions, but they are lightweight, abundant and hardly interact with their surroundings.  The IceCube detector consists of an array of 86 strings festooned with more than[...]