New Mode of Discovery
Scientists using the South Pole Telescope became the first team to detect a long-predicted polarization pattern in the afterglow of the Big Bang. The detection...
Category : Space and Atmospheric Physics
Opposite Ends
When solar wind lashes the Earth’s upper atmosphere, the polar regions react with a brilliant light show known as auroras. But do the ends of...
A Bigger Mousetrap
To catch the elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos is not just a matter of building a better mousetrap. You need a really, really BIG mousetrap....
From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Researchers with the IceCube collaboration have announced that a National Science Foundation (NSF)-built detector at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station allowed them to observe 28...
Major Upgrade
Austral summers are not as exciting now as they once were when the IceCube Neutrino Observatory was under construction at the South Pole Station. But...
Clear Signal
Researchers with the BICEP2 collaboration recently announced that their telescope in Antarctica has allowed them to collect what they believe is the first direct evidence...
Global Effort
The South Pole and McMurdo SuperDARN radars are part of a global network tracking the sun’s interaction with the Earth’s upper atmosphere to better understand...
Joining Together
The South Pole Telescope has been involved in investigating some of the greatest mysteries of the universe. Now the powerful instrument in Antarctica will be...
A Sticky Problem
A telescope launched 35 kilometers into the stratosphere above Antarctica had a singular mission: to detect the impossibly faint signal from when the universe expanded...
A New Home for an Old Experiment
The longest running experiment at McMurdo is leaving the station, but it’s not moving too far away, Antarctically speaking. The CosRay experiment, which has been...
