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A telescope made of ice

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A telescope made of ice

You catch them with a cubic kilometre of ice: almost all fly straight through, but the few that collide reveal with their cone of light where they come from.

Chapter 1 · Ghost particles

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A telescope made of ice

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 · Neutrinos

NewOct 18, 2026 · 4 chapters

An explainer film in four chapters on the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics: ghost particles that fly through the whole Earth, a cubic kilometre of ice at the South Pole as a trap, a cone of light that gives away the direction, and what neutrinos tell us about space. Pause anywhere and ask.

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