This week, workers and researchers from UW-Madison completed what may have been the most challenging construction job in the university?s history, 8,000 feet deep in the ice under the South Pole. They buried the last of 86 strings of detectors that are the heart of a massive scientific instrument called IceCube. It is the world?s largest neutrino detector, under construction since 2004 and designed to capture data on the high-energy particles from deep space as they zip through the crystalline Antarctic ice and collide with the atomic nuclei of frozen water.
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