Week 33 at the Pole

A full moon is doing just as good a job as the sun in lighting up the sky. Here the moon, surrounded by a clear halo, is shown hiding behind one of the frosty towers of the ICL. A large snow drift looms in the foreground. The week’s highlights included maintenance tasks, brief power outages, the start of a pool tournament (double elimination bracket hung on the wall), and a science fair—fun with liquid nitrogen and oobleck, a non-Newtonian fluid (which behaves in

Week 49 at the Pole December 13, 2024

Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige elected to the Collegium of the Royal Academy of Belgium in the Class of Sciences December 12, 2024

IceCube observation of the cosmic-ray anisotropy in the Southern Hemisphere December 9, 2024

Week 48 at the Pole December 5, 2024