Category Archives: News
Week 20 at the Pole
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF With record-breaking winds last week, the South Pole station spent a few [...]
Seeking the Sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays
This story is modified from one originally published by AAS Nova. Where do the highest-energy particles in [...]
WIPAC researchers set new limits on the origins of the Galactic neutrino emission detected by IceCube
Neutrinos are tiny, nearly massless particles that travel cosmological distances unhindered, acting as messengers that [...]
Week 19 at the Pole
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF There they are—those big, expansive, colorful auroras that seem to fill the [...]
Week 18 at the Pole
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF A very large moon halo dominated the sky, here seen above the [...]
Ke Fang named inaugural recipient of the Bernice Durand Faculty Fellowship
This story was originally published by UW Physics. Ke Fang, assistant professor of physics and WIPAC investigator, has received [...]
Week 17 at the Pole
Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF When it’s really cold outside—like with temperatures approaching -100°F!—it’s nice to have [...]
Francis Halzen elected to National Academy of Sciences
This story was originally published by University Communications. University of Wisconsin–Madison physicist Francis Halzen has [...]
Week 16 at the Pole
Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF Even though sunset is always a slow and gradual process at the [...]
Sánchez Scholars, Mann Scholars learn about potential careers in STEM as they tour WIPAC
This story was originally published by Madison365. About 30 students from across the Madison Metropolitan [...]