Abigail Vieregg: Seeking Cosmic Messengers

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Jul 15, 202141:42Science & Medicine

Dangling from a balloon the size of a football stadium miles above the South Pole, a payload built by astrophysicist Abby Vieregg peers down at the ice looking for messenger particles from the most energetic places in th...

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