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Solar neutrino measurements at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory have provided strong evidence that neutrinos change flavour as they propagate from the center of the sun to the earth. This result, at the 5.3 sigma level, is independent of the details of the solar model as the heavy water detector measures both the electron neutrino flux and the total flux of neutrinos from the sun. A global solar neutrino...