Yearly Archives: 2013

Week 51 at the Pole

The summer season isn’t long at the South Pole, from about late October through early [...]

WIPAC professor Stefan Westerhoff named 2013 APS fellow

Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor and faculty member at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle [...]

Week 50 at the Pole

It was a week filled with movement outdoors. First up, snow needed to be moved. [...]

IceCube awarded the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year

The IceCube Lab in March, 2013. Apart from the U.S. flag, the flags from Chile [...]

Week 49 at the Pole

It looks like IceCube winterover Ian Rees is practicing a good luge position, but he’s [...]

Neutrino telescope shines light on the last glaciation

From the most remote location on Earth, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory peers into deep space. [...]

BigData project uses gaming hardware to tackle radio data challenges

Large physics experiments are often developed in remote areas: the vast plains of Argentina, a [...]

Week 48 at the Pole

That’s IceCube winterover Ian Rees (facing) near the drill while it’s being prepared to access [...]

A new summer for IceCube: the polar season that may have not happened

Austral summers are not as exciting as they once were for IceCube. There are no [...]

Growing evidence of an astrophysical neutrino flux in IceCube: results from neutrino-induced particle showers

Results from several new analyses with partial IceCube configurations are being published these days. The [...]