NASA
Scientists drilled nearly 100 holes near the South Pole, froze basketball-sized detectors into the ice, caught ghostly neutrinos from across the universe, and now one of them has a Nobel Prize. The Antarctic remains unimpressed.
BBC World
Belgian physicist Francis Halzen wins the Nobel Prize for burying a giant neutrino detector in Antarctic ice - proving that sometimes the best way to look at space is to stare at the ground.
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