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NEUTRINO PHYSICS

Made visible by the invisible

Nature Physics volume 15, pages 5–6 (2019)Cite this article

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Using data from the IceCube telescope, a study presents the first attempt at obtaining geophysical information about Earth’s internal structure from the flux of neutrinos that pass through it.

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Fig. 1: Neutrino absorption.

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