2021 marks IceCube’s 10th year of full operation, which calls for celebration. And since you can’t have a celebration without a cake…we made one! Introducing IceCube’s 10th anniversary cake! The top tier is chocolate with nutella fudge and is decorated with a star- and aurora-filled night sky and the IceCube Laboratory. The bottom tier, which […]
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IceCards
The IceCube Collaboration is made up of over 300 people at 53 institutions in 12 countries (as of August, 2021). We asked our collaborators to send us postcards from wherever they are in the world. The messages include favorite memories, fun stories, lessons learned, and more recollections from our long history as a collaboration. […]
Celebrating IceCube’s first decade of discovery
It was the beginning of a grand experiment unlike anything the world had ever seen. Ten years ago today, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory fully opened its eyes for the first time. Over the course of the previous seven years, dozens of intrepid technicians, engineers, and scientists had traveled to the South Pole—one of the coldest, […]