December 21st, 2010

Drilling the last hole to place the sensors of the ICE CUBE project in the South Pole. Photo: NSF

Construction of the IceCube Antarctic neutrino telescope has been completed

The "telescope" or rather the neutrino particle detector consists of a series of sensors scattered within a cubic kilometer of ice at the station located at the geographic South Pole
Right: Dr. Zvi Telusti and Yonatan Sabir. Correction. Photo: Weizmann Institute

The big stretch

Gallium arsenide nanowires on a zinc surface. Photo: University of Copenhagen

Nanowires for solar cells and electronic components