Another successful field season for IceCube Upgrade.
A view of the IceCube Lab with the heated structures from the second field season for the IceCube Upgrade. Credit: Ilya Bodo, IceCube/NSF
Prof. Francis Halzen honored with the 2026 APS Medal
Beneath 1.5 kilometers of ice near the geographic South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on the hunt for ghost particles. As the world’s first gigaton neutrino detector, IceCube is used by astrophysicists to better understand cosmic objects by observing the neutrinos — abundant, nearly massless, and mysterious elementary particles — that…
Characterizing the flavor ratio of cosmic neutrinos
Neutrinos are tiny, nearly massless particles that can travel extraordinarily long distances unimpeded. Because of this, neutrinos act as “messengers,” harboring information about their cosmic sources. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole studies highly energetic astrophysical neutrinos that originate from the farthest reaches of outer space. Neutrinos come…
Week 49 at the Pole
The IceCube population at the South Pole is high right now for the final IceCube Upgrade field season, but there are still some people whose stays are over. Last week saw the departure of Ralf Auer, IceCube winterover manager, shown above with current winterovers Alicia and Camille as he bid…
Nora Valtonen-Matilla
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