{"id":298351,"date":"2026-02-23T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:29:06","slug":"deep-in-antarctic-ice-these-particles-can-answer-basic-questions-about-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298351\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep in Antarctic ice, these particles can answer basic questions about the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KUBNQNOXNJE7JFHWEHG7K6ODBA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RMDWLECEVFCLLDUX4CKUTFCGI4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">They had a short summer window \u2014 November to early February \u2014 to drill six new holes at least a mile and a half deep into the Antarctic ice and install long cables, beaded with hundreds of orb-shaped light detectors. This dense network of eyes is an upgrade to the <a href=\"https:\/\/icecube.wisc.edu\/science\/icecube\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IceCube Neutrino Observatory<\/a>, a massive 15-year-old system made up of more than 5,000 sensors embedded in a gigaton of ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-298351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}