Category Archives: Detector

A new year of data for IceCube

Not everyone begins a new year on January 1, right? That includes IceCubers, who decided [...]

IceCube 2014 in brief

IceCube cosmic-ray results were also used alongside observations from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, [...]

Designing the future of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a successful and large scientific facility located near the Amundsen-Scott [...]

Drilling IceCube: a story of innovation, expertise and strong will

Building a cubic-kilometer telescope at the South Pole seemed a chimera even for some of [...]

HAWC Collaboration meeting in Puebla after the last summer of construction

An aerial view of the HAWC tanks on site. Summer 2014. Image: Zig Hampel-Arias. Puebla [...]

The start of the IC86-2014 physics run

IceCube has been called the strangest detector in the world. People of all ages are [...]

IceCube awarded the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year

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

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 [...]

Published in Science: Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector

Today, nearly 25 years after the pioneering idea of detecting neutrinos in ice, the IceCube [...]

IceCube reveals interesting high-energy neutrino events

Each of the white dots represents an optical module in the IceCube neutrino detector. The [...]