According to an interesting story by the South China Morning Post, which story is available on Microsoft Start, China is a step closer in its quest to measure elusive particles called neutrinos with the installation of a massive subterranean sphere detector in the country’s south. The equipment, referred to as the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, or Juno, is expected to be up and running next year.
Neutrinos are elementary particles that are very difficult to detect because they have no electrical charge, very little mass and move at near light speed.
Juno is expected to be the first of a number of next-generation neutrino detectors around the world.
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in the United States and the Hyper-Kamiokande observatory in Japan are both scheduled to be up and running in 2027-28.
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