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  • How Nobel-winning neutrino work connects back to Fermilab in Batavia

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Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Thursday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 72 and low of 47 degrees.
  • Friday: A couple of morning showers, temps: high: 70, low: 52.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high of 80 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen for groundbreaking neutrino research (fnal.gov) — Batavia gets a brief spotlight as Fermilab's campus here is cited as a construction site for a major international neutrino experiment, tied to this year's Nobel-winning research. The prize honors Francis Halzen's work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which underpins cutting-edge particle physics projects connected to Fermilab.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?" — A chalk board (Thank you Charlie H. for sending it in!)
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