Alone on a Mountaintop, Awaiting a Very Hard Rain

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/science/observatory-cosmos-armenia-physics.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
January 21, 2020 at 10:30AM

Decades ago, Armenian scientists built a high-elevation trap to catch and study cosmic rays. Physics has mostly moved on, but the station persists — a ghost observatory with a skeleton crew.