Week 48 at the Pole

Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF Last week was very busy with computer upgrades, including operating system and firmware updates along with lots of machine rebooting. A challenging task, the “reboot-athon” was split [...]

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Prof. Francis Halzen honored with the 2026 APS Medal

This story was originally published by APS Physics. By studying neutrinos, “you could see things [...]

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Week 47 at the Pole

Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF The South Pole is not immune to trash. Trash accumulates there just [...]

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Week 46 at the Pole

Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF IceCube’s new winterovers Alicia and Camille had an active week at the [...]

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Week 45 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF In with the old, out with the new. [Wait a minute, strike [...]

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IceCube search for a correlation between galaxies and neutrinos

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, embedded in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice, searches for weakly [...]

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Week 44 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF When it rains, it pours—five planes arrived last week at the Pole. [...]

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Week 43 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The first flight bringing summer crew to the South Pole finally arrived. [...]

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Week 42 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Things were quieter at the Pole last week than they might have [...]

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Week 41 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Someone has to be first. This season, the first plane to arrive [...]

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Week 40 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The summer season personnel have not yet begun arriving at the Pole, [...]

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Exploring the universe through a new astrophysics video game

A still from Project Hercules. Credit: Sarah Gagnon “Project Hercules” is the latest educational video [...]

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Week 39 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The sun is up, but it’s still quite low on the horizon. [...]

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Week 38 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Antarctica has sometimes been referred to as the end of the world. [...]

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Week 37 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Yes, the sun has officically risen at the Pole. But it happened [...]

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UW–Madison team awarded NSF grant to develop cameras for the world’s largest high-energy gamma-ray observatory

This story was adapted from the WashU and CTAO releases for the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [...]

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Week 36 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF A total lunar eclipse started off last week at the Pole. IceCube [...]

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Promotions for three WIPAC faculty

This story was originally published by the University of Wisconsin–Madison physics department. Congratulations to Associate [...]

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Week 35 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF As the sky at the South Pole gets brighter, we can definitely [...]

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Week 34 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The sky at the South Pole continues to brighten up before official [...]

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Week 33 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Everything’s blue and rather dark, but not gloomy. There’s just a hint [...]

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Week 32 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF This could the season’s last view of the IceCube Lab with the [...]

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