Yearly Archives: 2013

Week 41 at the Pole

Greenery, and flowers, … this doesn’t look like much like the South Pole. But this [...]

Week 40 at the Pole

What do a rock, an egg, and a kiwi all have in common? They can [...]

Week 39 at the Pole

Now that looks like the sun—finally! It’s rising up over the flags at the ceremonial [...]

Week 38 at the Pole

The sun is rising at the Pole, but this once-a-year occurrence is a much more [...]

Week 37 at the Pole

There is little to no snowfall at the South Pole—it’s basically a desert. But there [...]

Week 36 at the Pole

Sky-watchers around the world were anticipating this close encounter of celestial objects last week. It [...]

Week 35 at the Pole

All appears to be tranquil, but there was more commotion than usual last week. A [...]

A UW–Madison multidisciplinary team improves IceCube’s computing

By 2010, the year that construction was completed, it was clear that the IceCube Neutrino [...]

Fall 2013 high school Internship program opens

Last January, eight Madison-area high school students began an internship at Wisconsin’s only astrophysics research [...]

Week 34 at the Pole

The sun has not officially risen at the Pole yet, but things do keep getting [...]