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Week 25 at the Pole

Kalvin Moschkau, IceCube/NSF You may have seen one midwinter at the Pole, but that doesn’t [...]

Week 24 at the Pole

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF That’s the IceCube Lab after dark, showing off its form as it’s [...]

An artist's impression of cosmic rays coming down from the sky onto an observatory
A novel technique to search for ultra-high-energy photons using the Pierre Auger Observatory

Cosmic rays, the highest energy particles of the universe, bombard Earth from all directions and [...]

Week 23 at the Pole

Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF The photos from last week are all indoor shots, but clearly auroras [...]

Week 22 at the Pole

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF The moon from the previous week is long gone—with the darker skies, [...]

Week 21 at the Pole

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF The moon returned to the Pole last week, and bright enough so [...]

Carlos Argüelles-Delgado named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

Credit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard University Photography This year, IceCube collaborator and Harvard University physics professor Carlos [...]

Week 20 at the Pole

Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF With record-breaking winds last week, the South Pole station spent a few [...]

A projection of the gamma-ray sky as seen by the Fermi Large Area Telescope.
Seeking the Sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

This story is modified from one originally published by AAS Nova. Where do the highest-energy particles in [...]

WIPAC researchers set new limits on the origins of the Galactic neutrino emission detected by IceCube

Neutrinos are tiny, nearly massless particles that travel cosmological distances unhindered, acting as messengers that [...]