Meanwhile…

Meanwhile, deep inside the Earth…

Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle quantamagazine.org

Radioactive decay thousands of kilometres down leaks antineutrinos that pass straight through the planet, and detectors have now caught enough of them to start weighing the uranium and thorium heating the mantle. It is the closest thing to a rock sample from depths no drill will ever reach.

From the edition published .