Author Archives: Jean DeMerit
Week 43 at the Pole
Wenceslas Marie-Sainte, IceCube/NSF It was another quiet week at the Pole. Well, quiet as far [...]
Week 42 at the Pole
Wenceslas Marie-Sainte, IceCube/NSF Sometimes it’s just plain quiet at the Pole. It’s summer, the sun’s [...]
IceCube analysis indicates there are many high-energy astrophysical neutrino sources
Back in 2013, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory—a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector embedded in Antarctic ice—announced the [...]
Newly discovered optical effect allows IceCube to deduce ice crystal properties
Every second, 100 trillion neutrinos pass through the human body. These tiny, almost massless particles [...]
Week 41 at the Pole
Wenceslas Marie-Sainte, IceCube/NSF So, you’ve arrived at the Geographic South Pole—or have you? The sign [...]
Week 40 at the Pole
Moreno Baricevic, IceCube/NSF Now there’s a bright sun! And it looks like it’s shining over [...]
Week 39 at the Pole
Moreno Baricevic, IceCube/NSF Last week was another quiet week at the Pole. And it was [...]
Week 38 at the Pole
Moreno Baricevic, IceCube/NSF There’s nothing wrong with “quiet,” especially where detector operations are concerned. That’s [...]
Week 37 at the Pole
Wenceslas Marie-Sainte, IceCube/NSF The early part of last week at the Pole was a little [...]
Week 36 at the Pole
Wenceslas Marie-Sainte, IceCube/NSF IceCube’s winterovers spent some time last week on troubleshooting activities at the [...]