First field season for IceCube Upgrade ongoing at the South Pole
A view of the seasonal equipment site from the first field season for the IceCube Upgrade. Image: Kurt Studt, IceCube/NSF
IceCube search for dark matter from the center of the Earth
The nature of dark matter—roughly 85% of all matter in the universe—is one of the most important unresolved questions in modern physics. Thus far, no experiment has been able to determine what dark matter is made of. A possible candidate for dark matter are the hypothesized weakly interacting massive particles [...]
Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige elected to the Collegium of the Royal Academy of Belgium in the Class of Sciences
IceCube collaborator and Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) Professor Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige was recently elected to the prestigious Collegium of the Royal Academy of Belgium in the Class of Sciences. The Collegium, a subdivision of the Royal Academy of Belgium, is made up of researchers under the age of 40 [...]
Week 53 at the Pole
Wasn’t last week the last week of the year at the South Pole? Hmm, we thought so, but guess not—so this must be it, with activities covering the end of 2024 and reaching into the beginning of 2025. All of the IceCube people at the South Pole got together for [...]