Japan's underground facility searching for clues about our origins

Inside an unassuming mine in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, scientists are hunting for neutrinos - ghost-like particles that are smaller than an atom and float through almost everything.

They travel at near the speed of light and explode out of nuclear reactions, the sun and dying stars, giving us clues about where we came from.

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