Summary: What's the most common, yet most elusive and least understood, particle in the universe? The neutrino. Starting with the invention of the nuclear bomb, billions of dollars have been spent in pursuit of this so-called ghost particle. Outnumbering atoms a billion to one, neutrinos are preposterously plentiful, they hardly interact with anything, and they mystifyingly morph between three different...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PARBowen, Mark (Mark Stander)
Summary: The IceCube Observatory has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved. Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it is not designed to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 522 BOWJayawardhana, Ray.
Summary: "Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the scientists who pursue them For more than eighty years, brilliant and eccentric scientists around the world have been searching for the incredibly small bits of matter we call neutrinos. Trillions of these ghostly particles pass through our bodies every second, but they are so pathologically shy that neutrino...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.01 JAYSummary: The cosmos has a secret ingredient: a swarm of invisible particles that fill every cubic inch of space. Trillions of them zip through our bodies but we don't notice a thing. Nova tells the 70-year struggle of scientists to understand them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GHOSummary: The Sun is a dynamic body undergoing constant, violent transformation. This Science Screen Report explores the Sun's multilayered structure, the forces at work within it, and the methods by which scientists study it. Detailing the activities of the SOHO spacecraft, the program also explains various solar phenomena: nuclear fusion, the release of neutrinos, oscillation of the photosphere, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006