Tag Archives: research

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, [...]

Prototype camera set for integration into novel gamma-ray telescope

A unique high-speed camera, designed to capture the fleeting effects of gamma rays crashing into [...]

Five years since IceCube Neutrino Observatory completion

Decades ago, the aspiration to build a kilometer-scale neutrino detector at the South Pole seemed [...]

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, [...]

WIPAC professor Stefan Westerhoff named 2013 APS fellow

Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin–Madison physics professor and faculty member at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle [...]

A new summer for IceCube: the polar season that may have not happened

Austral summers are not as exciting as they once were for IceCube. There are no [...]

Growing evidence of an astrophysical neutrino flux in IceCube: results from neutrino-induced particle showers

Results from several new analyses with partial IceCube configurations are being published these days. The [...]

Maruyama named APS Woman Physicist of the Month

Reina Maruyama, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and faculty member at the Wisconsin [...]