Category Archives: IceCube

Summer season done, now ready for the long winter

Up until almost the last minute, the summer activities at the Pole kept the IceCube [...]

APS April meeting highlights: IceCube results on neutrino oscillations and WIPAC talks

The American Physical Society meeting on astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, the so-called April [...]

Advancing neutrino, gamma-ray, and cosmic-ray astrophysics

Those of us working with high-energy neutrinos always have great expectations for a new year, [...]

Everything you always wanted to know about the IceCube detector

The IceCube detector has been explained widely—in many different languages and in hundreds of locations [...]

Can cosmic rays eventually reveal their origin?

A recent work by Markus Ahlers, a John Bahcall fellow at WIPAC, has shown that [...]

The 2016 WIPAC-QuarkNet internship in brief

The 2016 WIPAC-QuarkNet internship hosted students from Madison, Cottage Grove, and Janesville, Wisconsin, and even [...]

IceCube search for the ‘sterile neutrino’ draws a blank

In an effort to fill in the blanks of the Standard Model of particle physics, [...]

High school interns benefit from tackling IceCube challenges

As the summer is heating up, two local high school students are chilling out working [...]

IC86-2016, or a new physics run for IceCube

The IceCube Lab at the South Pole collects data from over 5,000 light sensors. Around [...]