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Made visible by the invisible

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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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Van Elewyck, V. Made visible by the invisible. Nature Phys 15, 5–6 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0332-4

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