  IceCube is a cubic neutrino telescope under construction at the South Pole
since the austral summer 2004/2005 with a total instrumented volume of the
order of 1 km^3. At the moment it is taking data with 40 deployed strings. The
full detector is expected to be completed in 2011 with up to 80 strings holding
60 digital optical modules (DOMs) each. The progenitor detector AMANDA has been
operating at the same site since 1997 and is still functioning as a means to
enhance neutrino effective area at energies below 100 GeV. A summary of science
results and status of the project is presented.
