Category Archives: IceCube

A first search for sterile neutrinos in IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration has performed two independent searches for light sterile neutrinos, both with one [...]

Feds renew big IceCube observatory contract with UW–Madison

The National Science Foundation today, March 30, announced that it has renewed a cooperative agreement [...]

Over 200 high school students joined the 2016 IceCube Masterclass

Students attending the IceCube Masterclass in River Falls. The third edition of the IceCube Masterclass [...]

Five years since IceCube Neutrino Observatory completion

Decades ago, the aspiration to build a kilometer-scale neutrino detector at the South Pole seemed [...]

Star-forming galaxies are not the main source of IceCube neutrinos

IceCube data are stubbornly showing us only a glimpse of the extreme universe at a [...]

Francis Halzen wins 2015 Balzan Prize

Francis Halzen, IceCube PI and professor at the UW–Madison. Image: Zig Hampel-Arias, WIPAC. Francis Halzen, [...]

Our summer research experience working on PINGU with researchers at Universität Mainz

The “IRES: U.S.-European International Research Experience-Particle Astrophysics for Undergraduates” program, funded by NSF and led [...]

Antarctic neutrino detector firms up cosmic neutrino sighting

Sorting through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each [...]

2015 GNN Dissertation Prize awarded to van Santen

Jakob van Santen in front of Bascom Hall with Bucky Badger, two of the most [...]

A new year of data for IceCube

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