Friday, March 12, 2021 - 3:15pm
The sun is getting noticeably lower in the sky at the South Pole. IceCube’s winterovers also note that it’s starting to get cold.
Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 11:15am
The highest-energy cosmic rays come from subatomic interactions within star clusters, not supernovae, say Michigan Tech physicists and collaborators, including WIPAC's Ke Fang.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 11:30am
On December 8, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. IceCube had seen a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1960.
Friday, March 5, 2021 - 9:45am
Last week was relatively quiet at the Pole, offering a good opportunity to get out and reflag the flag line between the IceCube Lab (ICL) and the station.
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 11:00am
The South Pole station has closed for the winter, as the last plane carrying passengers leaves the Pole.
Monday, February 22, 2021 - 1:15pm
It’s still light outside, but winter at the South Pole is fast approaching, and departures last week. Caption well outnumbered the arrivals.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - 9:00am
IceCube collaborator and Harvard physics professor Carlos A. Argüelles Delgado has been selected as a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow in Physics.
Monday, February 15, 2021 - 12:30pm
It takes a lot of fuel to keep things operating all year long at the South Pole, and all that fuel must be transported to this remote locale.
Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 10:00am
If you want to take inventory of a shipping container’s contents, you have to get inside first, and that can mean shoveling snow first.
Friday, January 29, 2021 - 11:30am
Last week, a game of dodgeball was just the thing for the emergency response team to practice working in their fire gear.