Click above to listen to part 2 of Radical Cosmology, featuring Anne Schukraft, associate scientist at the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory, discussing her PhD work at IceCube Observatory in Antarctica, where ice is used as a medium to detect the trace amounts of light generated by neutrinos passing through the earth.

Radical Cosmology:
Part 1: Alberto Martinez / Heretical Exoplanets 
Part 2: Anne Schukraft / Detecting Neutrinos 
Part 3: Ephraim Fischbach / New Neutrino Detector 
Part 4: Chris Impey / Predicting Black Holes 

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