Stories indexed under: Physics

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• Made in Wisconsin: Vessel to contain cosmic force takes shape July 20, 2011 At the heart of most celestial objects is a dynamo. The Earth's dynamo, spun to life in the molten metal core of our planet, generates a magnetic field that helps us find north and, perhaps more critically, shields us from solar winds that would otherwise singe our planet.
• IceCube South Pole neutrino detector completion events April 13, 2011 4/13/11
• New imaging technique provides rapid, high-definition chemistry March 21, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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• Ever-sharp urchin teeth may yield tools that never need honing Dec. 22, 2010 To survive in a tumultuous environment, sea urchins literally eat through stone, using their teeth to carve out nooks where the spiny creatures hide from predators and protect themselves from the crashing surf on the rocky shores and tide pools where they live.
• World's largest neutrino observatory completed at South Pole Dec. 17, 2010 Culminating a decade of planning, innovation and testing, construction of the world's largest neutrino observatory was successfully completed today.
• NSF signs operating pact with UW-Madison as IceCube nears completion Nov. 22, 2010 It is the start of the final Antarctic drilling season for IceCube, and as researchers descend on the South Pole, there is additional reason for celebration. The National Science Foundation has signed a five-year, $34.5-million agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to operate the unique IceCube telescope - a cubic kilometer in volume - buried in the Antarctic ice sheet between 1,400 meters and 2,400 meters deep.
• Fellowship a boost for budding energy researchers Sept. 2, 2010 A pair of young fusion researchers will be working with the support of the Department of Energy as they work on graduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays July 27, 2010 Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results - including an early finding about a phenomenon the telescope was not even designed to study.
• http://wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/features/professor-shows-the-wonder-full-side-of-physics/ July 12, 2010 The audience laughs and applauds as the performers on stage pull trick after trick from their sleeves: suspending a ball in midair, defying gravity, turning water into ice right before people's eyes.
• UW-Madison student wins $250,000 fellowship April 5, 2010 Daniel Lecoanet, who will graduate with comprehensive honors from University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring with a double major in math and physics, has won a five-year, no-strings-attached fellowship to pursue graduate studies.
• Particle accelerator ready to attempt record-breaking collisions March 29, 2010 Energy is building at the Large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, Switzerland, in more ways than one.
• UW-Madison physicists build basic quantum computing circuit Feb. 25, 2010 Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality.
• IceCube’s Antarctic season ends with success Feb. 17, 2010 As darkness settles over the South Pole and the Antarctic winter begins, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has something to celebrate: a great season on the ice.
• UW-Madison student wins Churchill Scholarship Feb. 11, 2010 A student who has engaged in chemistry and mathematics research on campus since high school is the University of Wisconsin-Madison's third Churchill Scholar - and the first in 30 years.
• Dental delight! Tooth of sea urchin shows formation of biominerals Dec. 21, 2009 Some of the most common minerals in biology, including those in bones and shells, have a mysterious structure: Their crystals are positioned in the same orientation, making them behave as one giant crystal, even though they do not look like a faceted crystal.
• Giant collider back in gear, sets record for collision intensity Dec. 2, 2009 On Nov. 30, the world's largest scientific instrument, the Large Hadron Collider, set a record when it smashed one stream of protons against another and then accelerated the beams to 1.18 trillion electron volts, exceeding the record held by Fermilab in Illinois since 2001.
• Scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos Oct. 9, 2009 In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where the needle points north.
• Curiosities: How big is space? Aug. 17, 2009
• UW-Madison physicist elected to National Academy of Sciences April 28, 2009 Susan N. Coppersmith, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of physics, was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences today (April 28), in recognition of her "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research."
• http://wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/features/antarctica%e2%80%99s-icecube-telescope-is-wisconsin-made/ March 3, 2009