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China’s giant underground neutrino lab prepares to probe cosmic mysteries

Due to come online this year, the JUNO facility will help to determine which type of neutrino has the highest mass — one of the biggest mysteries in physics.
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Workers at the construction site of China's next-generation neutrino detector, Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory.

Hard at work building China’s Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO). JUNO hopes to be detecting neutrinos by the end of 2024. Credit: Qiu Xinsheng/VCG via Getty

Kaiping, China

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Nature 627, 715-716 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00694-5

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