It’s almost the new year, which means it’s time for the 2026 IceCube Calendar! Featuring breathtaking photos taken by our winterovers from the past few years, this calendar will teach you something new about the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the South Pole every month. The calendar is available to download in three different sizes in either […]
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, embedded in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice, searches for weakly interacting particles called neutrinos that are able to travel undisturbed through the cosmos. Of interest are high-energy astrophysical neutrinos that can arise from cosmic ray interactions with matter or photons in astrophysical sources. So far, high-energy neutrino emission has been […]
When it rains, it pours—five planes arrived last week at the Pole. The South Pole station population tripled, and many of the new arrivals were IceCubers. The two new winterovers for the upcoming season, Camille and Alicia, were warmly welcomed out on the ice by the outgoing winterovers, Joe and Ilya, with a fancy, cardboard […]
Despite making up roughly 85% of all matter in the universe, the fundamental nature of dark matter (DM) still eludes scientists. Thus far, no experiment has been able to determine what dark matter is made of. One way scientists are probing for DM is by looking at the production of ordinary particles when two DM […]
After the first group of IceCubers spent a couple of days acclimating and reviewing the work needed to get the drill camp up and running, the crew went straight to work. The first order of business? Shoveling. And lots of it. They managed to shovel out most of the buildings in the drill camp. The […]
The first flight bringing summer crew to the South Pole finally arrived. It was a Basler plane, which brought 12 arrivals but left with three of the winterovering crew. IceCube’s current winterovers Joe and Ilya are still at the Pole, waiting for their replacements to arrive. Even with the first arrivals, the week was relatively […]
The first week of the final field season for the IceCube Upgrade started out with delays. Figures. Of course, even though that’s not what you hope for, uncooperative weather at the South Pole is a fact of life, something to deal with in stride. The first group of IceCubers for the Upgrade season had to […]
Things were quieter at the Pole last week than they might have been. Uncooperative weather delayed the opening flight of the season, so the new people they had been expecting didn’t show up. But there were more transitioning flights, like the previous week, one of which delivered the first fresh produce the winterovers have seen […]
Someone has to be first. This season, the first plane to arrive at the South Pole was the Basler plane shown above (and below), which was just stopping through on its way from Rothera Station to McMurdo. A small Twin Otter also landed at the Pole last week, another flight en route to McMurdo. Soon […]
Earlier this month, more than 150 participants took part in the fall IceCube Collaboration meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. The meeting was hosted by the University of Utah at the L.S. Skaggs Applied Science Building on campus. The official meeting kicked off with opening remarks from University of Utah physics and astronomy department chair […]