Category Archives: IceCube

IceCube awarded the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year

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

Neutrino telescope shines light on the last glaciation

From the most remote location on Earth, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory peers into deep space. [...]

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 [...]

Growing evidence of an astrophysical neutrino flux in IceCube: results from neutrino-induced particle showers

Results from several new analyses with partial IceCube configurations are being published these days. The [...]

Looking for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos with IceCube

A few days ago, the IceCube Collaboration presented strong evidence for an extraterrestrial neutrino flux [...]

WIPAC education partners announce classroom engineering initiative

KSTF teachers learning about the IceCube drill during 2009  summer training at the UW PSL [...]

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 telescope stars in new planetarium show

A joint production of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) at UW–Madison and the [...]

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 [...]