The distribution of the detectors triggered allows the direction of the Cherenkov radiation, and therefore the flight direction of the muon, to be worked out.

ECONOMIST: Neutrino astronomy

Although deliberate segregation is no longer an issue, demographic trends and white flight to rich suburbs keep pushing in the direction of a de facto segregation of schools.

ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court looks again at race in schools

The cosmic ray particle physics detector was carried to the International Space Station on the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour and installed under NASA direction.

CNN: Space station detector gives first clues to 'dark matter'

The crew of a TAM Linhas Aereas flight travelling over the area in the other direction shortly after the Airbus' last signal had reported seeing "bright spots" in the ocean about 1, 300 km (800 miles) from the Fernando de Noronha archipelago off Brazil's north-eastern coast.

BBC: Atlantic searched for lost plane