Sandego.net – The Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen recognizes his role in creating the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an Antarctic facility designed to detect high-energy neutrinos from deep space. His work has opened another way for scientists to examine some of the universe’s most distant and violent environments.

Neutrinos are particles with almost no mass and no electrical charge. They pass through stars, planets and galaxies with very little interaction, which is why they are often described as “ghostly” particles. Their ability to travel through dense material also makes them useful messengers from regions that light cannot easily escape.…