New Scientist has featured IceCube in their April 19th issue in an article by Anil Anathaswamy who visited the South Pole last season. An exclusive video is available on YouTube about the construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory!
"PEERING into a hollow drilled into the Antarctic ice, I suddenly feel rather shaky. "Your biggest danger is the hole," I'd been warned. "Don't turn your back on it."
So I'm careful not to. One slip could be fatal when the hole in question is 2.5 kilometres deep. Here at the South Pole, drillers are pumping hot water into the ice to bore holes that almost reach the bedrock. As this hole nears completion, a team of scientists and engineers prepares what looks like a giant string of pearls to lower into it. In fact, it's a kilometre-long string of shiny, bulbous detectors designed to look for flashes of light emitted by neutrinos smashing into the ice. This is just one of 80 such strings that will make up the IceCube Neutrino Observatory - an audacious attempt ...
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