Neutrinos are the big nothings of subatomic physics. Nearly massless and lacking an electric charge, these ghostly particles interact so weakly with other types of matter that more than 50 trillion of them pass unimpeded through a person’s body each second.
UNSETTLING DETECTION One of the two detectors in the MINOS neutrino experiment sits in the Soudan Underground Laboratory in Minnesota.
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