Prof. Francis Halzen honored with the 2026 APS Medal

This story was originally published by APS Physics. By studying neutrinos, “you could see things in the universe you couldn’t see any other way,” says Francis Halzen. Credit: El País/Bernando [...]

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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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Week 31 at the Pole

Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF It seems so bright outside at the Pole—but we didn’t miss the [...]

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