East Riding of Yorkshire Council said that an underground spring might have caused damage to a nearby sewer.

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People do stare when, instead of slapping your card on the reader, you slam down a chunky bangle only to see the gates to the underground spring open.

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As luck would have it, a project called NOvA, which should start collecting data in the spring of 2013, will send neutrinos through the Earth's crust from Batavia to an underground detector 810km away in Minnesota.

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