Yearly Archives: 2014

Week 42 at the Pole

For a place that receives so little precipitation, there’s an awful lot of snow around. [...]

DM-Ice collaborators discuss dark matter search

Deep in the ice at the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory sits and waits [...]

HAWC Collaboration meeting in Puebla after the last summer of construction

An aerial view of the HAWC tanks on site. Summer 2014. Image: Zig Hampel-Arias. Puebla [...]

Week 41 at the Pole

After the sun’s arrival come the planes. The first of the season to reach the [...]

Week 40 at the Pole

Water restrictions prompt innovation. When already limited showers get rationed even further, as they have [...]

UW physicist Francis Halzen receives American Ingenuity Award

Prof. Francis Halzen, principal investigator of IceCube and Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics [...]

Week 39 at the Pole

Ah, the things we take for granted. Sunshine might be one of them. Running water [...]

Small-scale cosmic-ray anisotropy with HAWC

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is designed to study the sky in TeV gamma [...]

UW-Madison hosts Fermi-VERITAS-HAWC workshop

Participating telescopes (from left to right) HAWC, Fermi, and VERITAS. Image: IceCube Collaboration The second [...]

More on astrophysical neutrinos yet no track of charmed mesons

A search for neutrino interactions inside IceCube brought evidence of an extraterrestrial neutrino flux. Now [...]