Stories indexed under: Physics

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• IceCube Neutrino Observatory explores origin of cosmic rays April 18, 2012 Although cosmic rays were discovered 100 years ago, their origin remains one of the most enduring mysteries in physics. Now, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive detector in Antarctica, is honing in on how the highest energy cosmic rays are produced.
• Missing: Electron antineutrinos; Reward: Understanding of matter-antimatter imbalance March 8, 2012 An international particle physics collaboration today (Thursday, March 8) announced its first results toward answering a longstanding question - how the elusive particles called neutrinos can appear to vanish as they travel through space.
• Daya Bay antineutrino detectors exceed performance goals Feb. 29, 2012 After just three months of operation, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has far surpassed expectations, recording tens of thousands of particle interactions and paving the way to a better understanding of neutrinos and why the universe is built of matter rather than antimatter.
• Recent sightings: Wonders of Physics Feb. 20, 2012
• Mother of pearl tells a tale of ocean temperature, depth Feb. 16, 2012 Nacre -- or mother of pearl, scientists and artisans know, is one of nature's amazing utilitarian materials.
• Recent sightings: Cosmic dynamo installation Jan. 4, 2012
• Microfabrication breakthrough could set piezoelectric material applications in motion Nov. 17, 2011 Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale electromechanical devices that could lead to improvements in high-resolution 3-D imaging, signal processing, communications, energy harvesting, sensing, and actuators for nanopositioning devices, among others.
• Eleven professors appointed to named professorships Oct. 6, 2011 Eleven distinguished faculty members have received named professorships, some of the highest honors for established faculty.
• New neutrino detection experiment in China up and running Aug. 15, 2011 Deep under a hillside near Hong Kong, a pair of new antineutrino detectors are warming up for some serious physics.
• 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.