Emily Conover spent one of the most consequential moments in recent physics history in a cavern near a nuclear power plant in France.
At the time, Conover was a Ph.D. student in particle physics (she’s now physics senior writer for Science News). She was part of a team building a detector in the cavern to observe elusive particles called neutrinos.
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