StockholmAbout 100 trillion neutrinos cross your body each second.
Francis Halzen, 82, won the 2026 physics Nobel for detecting the cosmic kind.
Buried sensors in a cubic kilometre of South Pole ice record the flash when a neutrino strikes a nucleus.
“I am working on a proposal, and I hope that this prize will help getting it approved,” said Halzen.
Hundreds built the observatory, but Halzen alone receives the prize at the 10 December ceremony.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 600+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- The New York Times
- Hindustan Times
- emphasizes IceCube innovation: cubic-kilometer Antarctic ice as light sensor array, enabling capture of neutrinos from distant violent cosmic processes
- Al Jazeera Online
- frames neutrinos as 'ghost particles' passing through planets unaltered, emphasizes IceCube's role revealing previously unknown cosmic phenomena
Sources: The New York Times, Hindustan Times, Al Jazeera Online