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Astrophysics: Chasing ghosts in Antarctica

Alexandra Witze welcomes a history of IceCube, an ambitious neutrino observatory.

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Witze, A. Astrophysics: Chasing ghosts in Antarctica. Nature 551, 30–31 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/551030a

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