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### UW–Madison scientists play instrumental role in proving viability of innovative gamma-ray telescope

Monday, June 1, 2020 - 2:00pm

Scientists in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium have detected gamma rays from the Crab Nebula using the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT), proving the viability of the novel telescope design for use in gamma-ray astrophysics. The announcement was made today by Justin Vandenbroucke, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, on behalf of the CTA Consortium at the virtual 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

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### UW–Madison astrophysicists donate computing resources to aid COVID-19 research

Friday, May 15, 2020 - 8:00am

Some of WIPAC's computing resources are beingused to simulate protein folding of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. How proteins fold into three-dimensional shapes is difficult to predict but has big effects on biological interactions, like those between a virus and its host. These simulations will help researchers understand how the virus compromises human immune systems and reproduces.

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### 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference kicks off tomorrow in Madison

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - 2:00pm

The 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) kicks off tomorrow in Madison, WI. ICRC is a physics conference organized biennially by the Commission on Astroparticle Physics (C4) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Sciences (IUPAP) in which physicists from around the world present the results of their research in astroparticle physics.

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### Antarctic neutrino detector firms up cosmic neutrino sighting

Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 10:00am

Sorting through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year, researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have gathered powerful new evidence in support of 2013 observations confirming the existence of cosmic neutrinos.

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### Turn your smart phone into a cosmic ray telescope

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 11:00am
Justin Vandenbroucke, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of physics and researcher at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC), leads the development of an app that can turn your cell phone into a cosmic ray detector.
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### Here comes HAWC: New observatory to seek out gamma rays

Friday, March 20, 2015 - 1:15pm
High on a sleeping Mexican volcano, a new particle astrophysics observatory is about to blink to life, commencing an all-sky search for very high energy gamma rays — a search that could greatly expand the catalog of known gamma ray sources and chip away at the mystery of the cosmic rays that constantly bombard our planet.
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