Week 11 at the Pole

Pull up a chair—sunset at the South Pole takes weeks, not hours. And why is that? Because the Earth’s rotational axis is tilted, the poles gradually proceed from full exposure to full shadow (and back again) as the Earth travels around the sun. The Earth’s tilt also gives us our seasons, and something less obvious—and maybe our new word of the day—the

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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

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