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DUNE neutrino detectors to be assembled a mile underground in South Dakota
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Construction of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is due to begin Monday, The Guardian reports. Engineers will assemble four detectors in caverns a mile beneath the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota, to study neutrinos and probe why the universe is made of matter rather than antimatter.
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