Newswire: 21 Nov 2013 - DESY - IceCube detects first high-energy neutrinos from the cosmos

Within the eternal ice of Antarctica, scientists have observed the first solid evidence for high-energy neutrinos coming from cosmic accelerators beyond our own solar system. Between May 2010 and May 2012 the IceCube detector at the South Pole captured a total of 28 neutrinos with energies greater than 30 teraelectronvolts (TeV). Two of the neutrinos had an energy of more than 1,000 TeV -- that's more than the kinetic energy of a fly in flight -- compressed into a single elementary particle. The...