Physicists planning big at the South Pole are facing a tough test of patience as pressing infrastructure problems force the U.S. National Science Foundation to postpone construction of new telescopes and neutrino detectors. (Jeff Warneck, NSF) Physicists planning big...
IceCube is the largest neutrino observatory in the world and consists of over five thousand optical detectors draped through a cubic kilometer of ice at the geographic South Pole. IceCube was built specifically to study cosmic neutrinos coming from outside our own...