ICECUBE

Finally the DOM experiment in the South Pole Telescope detector system is starting to give results. Credit: Mark Krasberg, IceCube/NSF

Bending reality: Einstein meets quantum mechanics in Antarctic ice

Researchers examine the interface between these two theories, using ultra-high-energy neutrinos detected by a particle detector placed deep inside the Antarctic ice sheet at the South Pole
Ice Cube Laboratory in Antarctica Credit: Sven Lidstrom, US National Science Foundation

A universe of particles / Michael Moyer

Particles from space deep in the ice

IceCube detector. Photo: Jamie Young/NSF and IceCube Collaboration

Guests from the edge of the universe

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
Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The Next Thing in Astronomy - Part IV - Seen from the Glacier