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Week 21 at the Pole

Connor Duffy, IceCube/NSF The moon returned to the Pole last week, and bright enough so [...]

Carlos Argüelles-Delgado named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

Credit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard University Photography This year, IceCube collaborator and Harvard University physics professor Carlos [...]

Week 20 at the Pole

Kevin Zagorski, SPT/NSF With record-breaking winds last week, the South Pole station spent a few [...]

A projection of the gamma-ray sky as seen by the Fermi Large Area Telescope.
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 [...]

Department Chair and professor Mark Eriksson (left) presents assistant professor Ke Fang with the Bernice Durand Faculty Fellowship at the department awards banquet in May 2024
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 [...]

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Francis Halzen elected to National Academy of Sciences 

This story was originally published by University Communications. University of Wisconsin–Madison physicist Francis Halzen has [...]