Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 10:00pm
Strong evidence for a very high energy neutrino flux of extraterrestrial origin was found in November 2013, and new data from IceCube now confirms the discovery. Once more, the Antarctic detector brings us still the highest energy neutrino ever observed. This 2-PeV neutrino event was detected by IceCube on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. It was dubbed “Big Bird.”
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 1:00pm
The first edition of the IceCube Masterclass, hosted on May 21 at five different IceCube institutions in the US and Europe, will bring over 30 students to WIPAC from six high schools in and around Madison.
Friday, May 16, 2014 - 8:45am
The job of IceCube winterover at the South Pole entails a range of skills. After all, the winterovers are charged with on-site operation and maintenance tasks for a large neutrino detector, requiring experience with aspects of high-performance computing hardware as well as with standard laboratory equipment.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 3:15pm
IceCube has been called the strangest detector in the world. People of all ages are surprised to learn that thousands of sensors are buried deep in Antarctic ice to help us learn about the most extreme and remote places in our Universe. What if a sensor breaks? Is there something you can do to improve IceCube now? These are questions that IceCubers are asked again and again.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 9:30am
Now there’s a flashy aurora! You know (and it’s not hard to imagine), they say a photo really can’t do justice to these aurora australis—to how impressive they really are when viewed in person.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 9:15am
This is what the ICL porch looks like as it gets darker outside, bathed in red light (just two short weeks ago things looked a bit different). For the benefit of research projects that monitor the sky during winter darkness, outdoor lighting at the South Pole is minimized and kept to a red spectrum, which reduces interference.
Monday, April 28, 2014 - 11:00am
See anything? Well, there is something there, in this season's first photo of an aurora from the IceCube winterovers. Many more aurora shots to come, guaranteed.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 1:00pm
IceCube, the so-called strangest detector ever built, has captured the interest of researchers, journalists and engineers around the world but also of plenty of students and families of all ages
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 8:00am
The IceCube Laboratory (ICL) is home to a computer complex that collects and processes data from the experiment’s optical sensors buried in the ice. The IceCube winterovers regularly travel between the South Pole station and the ICL, about a kilometer’s distance, for maintenance tasks or troubleshooting issues.
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 8:30am
The darkness of night tells us that we’re in the Earth’s shadow. But who thinks about the Earth’s shadow during the day?