STOUGHTON ? Here in the cornfields, Nathan Bowker wears a blue T-shirt that reads, ?Hello from South Pole, Antarctica.?
On an 80-degree day that?s muggy enough to make straight hair curl, it doesn?t seem like Bowker could get much further from the South Pole. But he?s part of a team that spent Monday preparing for a trip there in November ? summer in Antarctica ? where he and others are expected to complete the IceCube neutrino detector. When it is finished, it will be the world?s largest such device.