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Researchers focus on building telescope at South Pole

It's 40 degrees F below zero (with the wind chill) at the South Pole today. Yet a research team from the University of Delaware is taking it all in stride.

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Scientists build IceCube at South Pole

The University of Delaware is helping to build a huge "IceCube" at the South Pole, and it has nothing to do with cooling beverages.

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South Pole scientist may have been poisoned

An astrophysicist who died mysteriously while spending the winter at the South Pole may have been deliberately poisoned, police say.

Australian Rodney David Marks, 32, died in May, 2000, from methanol poisoning, while working with 49 others at a research base operated by the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF).

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