Beyond Antarctica

Science at the edge of the world. A trip report from Antarctica, and explorations beyond the South Pole.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

It makes all the difference how you feel at the Pole. Everyone's mood is so much better now.

Posted by Karsten Heeger at 11:03 AM

Karsten Heeger: I am a particle astrophysicist studying neutrinos and dark matter. Our experiments are built deep underground: I have worked 2km deep in a nickel mine in Canada and in the mountains of Japan. We are building an experiment in an underground tunnel near the Daya Bay nuclear power plant in China, and have deployed detectors to search for dark matter 2.5km deep in the Antarctic ice. We do everything we can to get away from the disturbing cosmic rays.....

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