Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05703-y?utm_source=briefing-wk&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=briefing&utm_content=20180713 The story began on 22 September 2017, when an electrically charged particle called a muon streaked through the Antarctic ice cap at close to the speed of light. IceCube — an array of more than 5,000 sensors buried in a cubic kilometre’s worth of ice — detected flashes of light that the muon produced in its wake. The particle appeared to emerge from below the detector — an orientation that indicated that it was the decay product of a neutrino that had come from below the horizon. Muons can only travel so far inside matter, whereas neutrinos often pass through the entire planet unimpeded; most of the ones that IceCube detects have crashed with a particle inside Earth to produce a muon (see 'Neutrino observatory'). Bob Wilson
