Pauli Murray was raised in Durham and was granted the award recognition by Gov. Josh Stein on Wednesday.

Reporters have been invited to take their first look at the cavern being built to house the Hyper-Kamiokande detector for observing elementary particles, which are called neutrinos.

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But scientists haven’t been able to find anything similar.

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