Friday, August 30, 2019 - 10:45am
It’s a slow sunrise at the South Pole, with light creeping up from the horizon little by little each day. But even as the twilight approaches and the sky brightens, it’s still dark enough to discern some auroras here and there.
Friday, August 23, 2019 - 2:00pm
Sometimes the moon is so bright at the Pole that it lights up the dark winter skies. The moon was setting last week, and as it left there was a slow transition to the first visible signs of sunlight along the horizon.
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 1:15pm
The auroras were still out in full force last week, as if lingering in their farewell before twilight steps up.
Friday, August 9, 2019 - 4:00pm
It has been a week since the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference ended in Madison, WI. Over the course of eight days of meetings, 815 participants from 39 countries gathered at Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In total, the meeting yielded 1,056 papers, 406 oral talks, 650 posters, 35 plenary talks, two diversity events, a public lecture, and an art gallery.
Friday, August 9, 2019 - 9:00am
That’s a lot of green!—it looks like a backdrop fit for Wicked. But views like this, of strong auroras over the IceCube Lab (ICL), will soon be gone, so the winterovers are capturing the night sky while they still can.
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - 4:45pm
From July 22-24, the Multimessenger Diversity Network (MDN) met at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, located at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the lead institution of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
Thursday, August 1, 2019 - 3:45pm
Last week was a mostly quiet one at the South Pole station. With winds blowing up to 40 knots for the early part of the week, people were trying to stay indoors.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 9:45am
Mention the word “neutrino” to the casual observer and chances are they will look at you with interrogation in their face. They might have a fuzzy idea that this is an elementary particle, but they probably won’t know why it is important, who studies it, or where and how. This is why any initiative to engage all segments of society in alternative approaches to contemplating cosmic ray research is a welcome one. Art is perhaps one of the greatest vehicles to do this.
Thursday, July 25, 2019 - 1:45pm
It was a busy week all around at the Pole. The IceCube detector itself had a few issues for the winterovers to attend to, while the final week of the Polympics kept them busy as well.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 2:00pm
The 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) kicks off tomorrow in Madison, WI. ICRC is a physics conference organized biennially by the Commission on Astroparticle Physics (C4) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Sciences (IUPAP) in which physicists from around the world present the results of their research in astroparticle physics.