Neutrinos are elusive, shape-shifting subatomic particles—probably the smallest particles in the universe. They are quintessentially Star Trek and also the stuff of real science. They even won a Nobel Prize for two physicists this year.
Dartmouth is home to any number of sophisticated scientific devices and machines, and then there’s the ruler-in-the-collection-tube rain gauge, a method that has served its purpose so well that its use contributed to the College’s recent award for
Potentially destructive high-energy electrons streak into Earth’s atmosphere from space, not as Shakespeare’s “gentle rain from heaven,” but at velocities approaching the speed of light.