<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/link-2024-11-research-on-ice-spartan-students-help-unlock-cosmic-mysteries-in-antarctica.aspx" dsn="blogs"><title>Research on ice: Spartan students help unlock cosmic mysteries in Antarctica</title><description>Students and faculty are building sensors that will be embedded deep within Antarctic ice to shed new light on the origins of the universe.</description><pubDate>11/21/2024</pubDate><image><img src="/news/2024/2024-11-icecube.jpg" alt="Alejandra Granados, a graduate student specializing in particle astrophysics, inspects a nearly completed digital optical module. Photo by Derrick L. Turner"/></image><externalNewsArticleLink>https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2024/research-on-ice-spartan-students-help-unlock-cosmic-mysteries-in-antarctica</externalNewsArticleLink><categories>Discovery Science,STEM Education,Student Success</categories><broadcast/></item>