UW physicist Francis Halzen receives American Ingenuity Award

Prof. Francis Halzen, principal investigator of IceCube and Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics [...]

Week 39 at the Pole

Ah, the things we take for granted. Sunshine might be one of them. Running water [...]

Small-scale cosmic-ray anisotropy with HAWC

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is designed to study the sky in TeV gamma [...]

UW-Madison hosts Fermi-VERITAS-HAWC workshop

Participating telescopes (from left to right) HAWC, Fermi, and VERITAS. Image: IceCube Collaboration The second [...]

More on astrophysical neutrinos yet no track of charmed mesons

A search for neutrino interactions inside IceCube brought evidence of an extraterrestrial neutrino flux. Now [...]

Week 38 at the Pole

Now that the sun is back at the South Pole, there’s nowhere to hide. You [...]

Week 37 at the Pole

After months and months of darkness, it’s no wonder that the sun’s return to the [...]

Turn your smart phone into a cosmic ray telescope

Professor Justin Vandenbroucke leads the development of the DECO app. Image: Jeff Miller, UW-Madison The [...]

Week 36 at the Pole

As dawn approaches, the sky is cast in a glow that reflects off the sides [...]

Week 35 at the Pole

There’s the moon, but where’s the sun? It’s coming, it’s coming. At the South Pole, [...]