Author Archives: Silvia Bravo

Everything you always wanted to know about the IceCube detector

The IceCube detector has been explained widely—in many different languages and in hundreds of locations [...]

Can cosmic rays eventually reveal their origin?

A recent work by Markus Ahlers, a John Bahcall fellow at WIPAC, has shown that [...]

Meet Gretel and Roberto, two physicists-in-training

This summer, two students worked with WIPAC throught the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at [...]

The 2016 WIPAC-QuarkNet internship in brief

The 2016 WIPAC-QuarkNet internship hosted students from Madison, Cottage Grove, and Janesville, Wisconsin, and even [...]

TARGET 5, enabling precision gamma-ray astronomy

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will detect gamma rays with unprecedented precision. To do this, [...]

IC86-2016, or a new physics run for IceCube

The IceCube Lab at the South Pole collects data from over 5,000 light sensors. Around [...]

A first search for sterile neutrinos in IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration has performed two independent searches for light sterile neutrinos, both with one [...]

Over 200 high school students joined the 2016 IceCube Masterclass

Students attending the IceCube Masterclass in River Falls. The third edition of the IceCube Masterclass [...]

Star-forming galaxies are not the main source of IceCube neutrinos

IceCube data are stubbornly showing us only a glimpse of the extreme universe at a [...]

Unveiling the insights of your phone using cosmic rays

If learning that you can turn your smart phone into a cosmic-ray telescope was astonishing, [...]