Kinda badass. And UW Madison involved. That makes it even more so.
#NobelPrize
“The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a research facility located at the South Pole in Antarctica, according to its website, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison is its lead institution.
Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles with a mind-bogglingly small mass. Yet they are everywhere: they spew from stars like the sun and trillions zip through our bodies every second.” - Associated Press
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/g-s1-146622/nobel-prize-physics