Week 48 at the Pole
Alicia Fattorini, IceCube/NSF Last week was very busy with computer upgrades, including operating system and [...]
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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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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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Students reach for the cosmos in IceCube Cosmic-Ray Summer Program
Participants in front of the Yerkes Observatory. Courtesy of Paolo Desiati Over six weeks in [...]
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Week 30 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Quiet time at the South Pole is good for any number of [...]
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Week 29 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week was one of those relatively quiet weeks at the South [...]
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WIPAC at ICRC 2025
The 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), the largest conference in the world for cosmic [...]
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Week 28 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF What’s black and white and red all over? All the images from [...]
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Week 27 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week was mostly quiet again at the South Pole. The snow [...]
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Week 26 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF There’s a lot of snow around at the South Pole for a [...]
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Week 25 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week, things were quiet for IceCube’s winteovers as well as for [...]
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Week 24 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Wash, rinse, and repeat. You have two seasons at the Pole, summer [...]
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Week 23 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week’s outdoor photographs from the Pole have gone from colorful to [...]
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Karle, Lu lead team awarded Research Forward funding
This story was originally published by the University of Wisconsin–Madison physics department. The Office of [...]
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Week 22 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF To really enjoy auroras, you want a nice dark sky. And in [...]
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Week 21 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF It was a rather quiet week at the Pole. Not in the [...]
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Week 20 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Sometimes it feels almost as if the auroras are trying to say [...]
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Week 19 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Just as it’s getting dark, the moon appears and brightens things back [...]
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Week 19 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Just as it’s getting dark, the moon appears and brightens things back [...]
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Week 18 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The auroras keep coming. Last week at the Pole, IceCube winterover Ilya [...]
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Week 18 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF The auroras keep coming. Last week at the Pole, IceCube winterover Ilya [...]
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Week 17 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Ta-da! The skies were ablaze last week at the Pole. It was [...]
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Week 17 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Ta-da! The skies were ablaze last week at the Pole. It was [...]
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Week 16 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF And then…the auroras start to get bigger and brighter. Unfortunately, the weather [...]
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HAWC detection of high-energy gamma-ray emission surrounding middle-aged pulsars
Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars—remnants of massive star explosions—that blast electromagnetic radiation at regular [...]
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Week 15 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week had a mix of quiet days and less quiet days [...]
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Week 14 at the Pole
Simeon Bash, SPT/NSF Aww, that first aurora of the season—often rather light and wispy, here [...]
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Week 13 at the Pole
Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF Last week was relatively quiet at the Pole. Even the outdoor photographs [...]
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