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Manu Srivastava and 6 high school students pose standing in front of a sign at CERN with their arms folded
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How an MIT graduate student helped a team of young scientists test their experiment at CERN

Physics PhD student Manu Srivastava helped high school students in India develop test that could contribute to one of the world’s largest neutrino experiments.
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