Explore South Pole Science at Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center
As summer starts up, many of us search the night sky for stars, constellations, and evidence of the northern lights. On Wednesday, …
Ashland: July 24-25
We will be at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center for a couple of days at the end of July with hands-on …
Madison: Weds, May 08
Deep in the Antarctic ice, more than 5,000 detector modules sit in frozen darkness, waiting for the blue bursts of radiation released …
Milwaukee: Mon, April 22
Trips to the South Pole usually require a lot of specialized equipment, but Nils Irland’s packing list for his November 2012 visit …
UW-Platteville Photos
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Event Recap: UW-Platteville
With nearly 200 participants at the campus event on the evening of Tuesday, January 29th, the night was a huge success. The …
Milwaukee, WI: April 22
On Monday, April 22, we’ll be in Milwaukee for a very special event. We have been working with planetarium show producers at …
Ice Drilling
The IceCube project at the South Pole has transformed a cubic kilometer of ice into the world’s weirdest and largest telescope. Engineers …
LED programming with IceCube
Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs produce light when electrons inside semiconductors drop from a higher to lower energy level. The color produced is …
100 years of Discovery
On December 14, 1911, Norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole. One hundred years later, Antarctica is …