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Published online 29 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020527-3

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Hope for neutrino detection

Elusive energy-packed particles should give new view cosmos after all.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are slated to be spent on detecting very energetic, almost ghostly particles called neutrinos as they stream through the Earth. Some astronomers and physicists hope these particles will open a new window on the Universe.

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