An underwater effort to detect subatomic particles has ended up detecting sperm whales instead. Nicola Nosengo reports on a partnership between marine biologists and particle physicists.
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Nosengo, N. Underwater acoustics: The neutrino and the whale. Nature 462, 560–561 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462560a
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