Yearly Archives: 2021

Week 10 at the Pole

Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF Last week was relatively quiet at the Pole. IceCube’s winterovers performed a [...]

Week 9 at the Pole

Josh Veitch-Michaelis, IceCube/NSF The sun is getting noticeably lower in the sky at the South [...]

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Not So Fast, Supernova: Highest-energy Cosmic Rays Detected in Star Clusters

The highest-energy cosmic rays come from subatomic interactions within star clusters, not supernovae, say Michigan [...]

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IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old theory

On December 8, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from [...]

Week 8 at the Pole

Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF Last week was relatively quiet at the Pole, offering a good opportunity [...]

Week 7 at the Pole

Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF Well, now it’s official—the South Pole station has closed for the winter.  [...]

Departing summer personnel walking out to awaiting plane on the skiway at South Pole.
Week 6 at the Pole

It’s still light outside, but winter at the South Pole is fast approaching.  There were [...]

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WIPAC alum Carlos Argüelles is a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow

IceCube collaborator and Harvard physics professor Carlos A. Argüelles Delgado has been selected as a [...]

Large fuel bladders parked on the ice at the South Pole.]
Week 5 at the Pole

Last week at the Pole, the fuel arrived.  A lot of it!  It takes a [...]

Person in red parka shoveling snow outside the doors of a shipping container.
Week 4 at the Pole

If you want to take inventory of a shipping container’s contents, you have to get [...]