Yearly Archives: 2018
Week 42 at the Pole
Ok, so you’ve completed that giant 18,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, now what? Well, you might not [...]
The cosmic-ray anisotropy with two years of HAWC
In a new measurement published recently in The Astrophysical Journal, HAWC has looked deeper into [...]
Week 41 at the Pole
Bad weather at the Pole last week kept the first flights from arriving, but it [...]
Week 40 at the Pole
While they wait at the Pole for the first arriving flights of the season, there [...]
Week 39 at the Pole
The main entrance to the South Pole station is known as Destination Alpha—this image shows [...]
IceCube Upgrade for precision neutrino physics and astrophysics kicks off
The launch of the so-called IceCube Upgrade—which will deploy seven new strings at the bottom [...]
Mountain-top observatory sees gamma rays from exotic Milky Way object
For the first time, an international collaboration of scientists has detected extremely high-energy gamma rays, [...]
Computer vision powers smartphone-based cosmic-ray observatory
A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has developed an algorithm for identifying [...]
Week 38 at the Pole
The equinox occurred last week, and the sun has finally risen above the horizon. The [...]
Week 37 at the Pole
Just because the sun’s coming up, doesn’t mean it’s getting warmer yet. In fact, they’ve [...]