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W boson spotted in Antarctica

It was one of the highest-energy events ever detected by the IceCube observatory; only two other events have had an energy greater than 5 PeV.

6 December 2016, a high-energy particle hurtled from outer space and through an Antarctic ice sheet, where it slammed into an electron at

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