It’s always a white Christmas at the South Pole. It was also summer solstice at the Pole, and the winterovers got outdoors for some nice shots of the station. […]
Week 50 at the Pole
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Week 49 at the Pole
Why are the winterovers playing chess out on the ice? The answer might just be a question itself—why not? Yes, it’s cold outside…but you just can’t let the weather get in your way. […]
Get festive with these IceCube snowflake patterns
’Tis the season for snowflakes—made of ice or paper! Try one (or more) of our festive, IceCube-themed snowflake templates to decorate your space. Choose from a DOM, the IceCube Lab, penguins Rosie and Gibbs, or even our PI, Professor Francis Halzen. […]
Week 48 at the Pole
Last week, long-awaited cargo arrived, and just as exciting, the South Pole traverse also showed up. The traverse travels overland to bring fuel to the Pole that would otherwise need to be flown in. […]
Week 47 at the Pole
IceCube was running smoothly last week. But it hasn’t been such smooth sailing this year for cargo arrivals (delays). On the plus side, a supply of IceCube beanie hats arrived! […]
Locally sourced neutrinos? IceCube takes a look
IceCube has not yet found neutrino sources within our galaxy, but there may be sources that are not too much farther out. To test this possibility, the IceCube Collaboration recently performed an analysis scouring the local universe for potential neutrino sources. They conducted two different searches that looked for correlations between neutrino emission and dense regions in a catalog of galaxies called the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS). While they did not find significant sources, they were able to put constraints on neutrino emission from nearby galaxies, which they present in a paper recently submitted to the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. […]
Week 46 at the Pole
Since it’s summer at the Pole, more people are arriving than leaving. However, last week two people departed who had been at the Pole for an extended time—yes, we’re talking about Benjamin Eberhardt and Kathrin Mallot, IceCube’s winterovers for the past year, shown here among the red parkas walking toward the plane above. […]
Week 45 at the Pole
A plane landing in daylight means summer season and new arrivals at the South Pole. So far things have started off busy for IceCube’s new winterovers. […]
Meet Jocelyn Argueta, our 2019 PolarTREC educator
IceCube’s South Pole crew will have another pair of helping hands (and flippers) this summer season: Jocelyn Argueta will be at the Pole from November 30 to December 27 as our 2019 PolarTREC educator. (As for the flippers…keep reading to find out.)
Jocelyn is a bilingual scientist-performer with Phantom Projects Theatre Group in La Mirada, California. She has a Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Irvine, and has her own show based around her character, Jargie the Science Girl! […]
IceCube featured in Supercomputing 2019 keynote address
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory recently took center stage at Supercomputing 2019—the largest high-performance computing conference in the world—when NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, gave a keynote address. In it, Huang highlighted science projects using NVIDIA hardware and forthcoming products that focus on scientific innovation. One of these projects involved IceCube. […]