Mary Bishai hunts ghosts for a living—subatomic ones. As an experimental neutrino physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, she chases some of the universe's most elusive particles to unlock their secrets. According to Physics World, Bishai describes the work as pure joy: the kind of challenging, collaborative science that defines her passion for physics.

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