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Cosmic neutrinos named Physics World 2013 Breakthrough of the Year

13 Dec 2013 Hamish Johnston

The Physics World award for the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year goes to “the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory for making the first observations of high-energy cosmic neutrinos”. Nine other achievements are highly commended and cover topics ranging from nuclear physics to nanotechnology

Photograph of IceCube scientists at the South Pole
Celebrating the completion of IceCube at the South Pole. (Courtesy: Chad Carpenter, IceCube/NSF)
In seeking to make sense of night skies, astronomers have always had to rely on electromagnetic radi

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