Icarus May 2026

Overcome by the exhilaration of flight, Icarus ignored the warnings and soared upward. The sun melted his wings, and he plunged into the sea and drowned.

The ICARUS experiment (Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals) uses a massive 760-ton liquid-argon detector to study neutrinos . Originally located at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory, it was refurbished at CERN and now operates at Fermilab near Chicago to search for elusive "sterile" neutrinos. ICARUS

The name has been adopted by several high-profile modern projects that, ironically, aim to reach new heights through careful engineering rather than reckless ambition. Overcome by the exhilaration of flight, Icarus ignored

Daedalus warned his son to fly a middle course: too low, and the sea’s dampness would weigh down the feathers; too high, and the sun’s heat would melt the wax. Overcome by the exhilaration of flight