Category Archives: Research
Researchers continue to narrow in on dark matter
There are theories that say neutrinos—shy, lightweight fundamental particles—may provide the key to understanding dark [...]
Dark Matter Day 2019: A conversation with DM-Ice scientist Matt Kauer
DM-Ice, or Dark Matter-Ice, is searching for dark matter in the Southern Hemisphere. In celebration [...]
An all-sky cosmic-ray proton anisotropy search with Fermi-LAT
Collaborators from Fermi-LAT realized that the abundance of cosmic-ray protons in the LAT data set [...]
A successful ICRC 2019
It has been a week since the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference ended in Madison, [...]
36th International Cosmic Ray Conference kicks off tomorrow in Madison
The 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) kicks off tomorrow in Madison, WI. ICRC is [...]
Gamma-ray telescope ready for prime time
A new telescope, part of an international effort to develop and build the world’s largest, [...]
IceCube and HAWC unite efforts to dissect the cosmic-ray anisotropy
In an attempt to better understand the anisotropy, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the HAWC [...]
COSINE-100 challenges the only dark matter observation claim to date
the COSINE Collaboration today presents the first results that significantly challenge DAMA’s claim of a [...]
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, [...]
Solving the mysteries of cosmic rays
Since cosmic rays were discovered in 1912, scientists have sought the origins of these mysterious [...]