Stories indexed under: Physics

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• Unique engineering shop looks to another challenge of 21st century physics May 3, 2013 Sequestered in the farmland near Stoughton, an unusual University of Wisconsin-Madison facility - part machine shop, part design lab, part physics outpost - continues to make machines, equipment and detectors for the world's most advanced experiments.
• Vaterite: Crystal within a crystal helps resolve an old puzzle April 25, 2013 With the help of a solitary sea squirt, scientists have resolved the longstanding puzzle of the crystal structure of vaterite, an enigmatic geologic mineral and biomineral.
• Physics Fair at UW-Madison this Saturday Feb. 14, 2013 The sixth annual UW-Madison Physics Fair will offer physical delights and pain-free education free to all comers on Saturday, Feb. 16 on the UW-Madison campus.
• UW–Madison physicist wins science image challenge Jan. 31, 2013 Close your eyes and picture an ocean reef: vivid violet, cool blue and tropical green intertwining in gentle curves and delicate edges. And that's just the urchin teeth.
• One step closer: UW-Madison scientists help explain scarcity of anti-matter Dec. 26, 2012 A collaboration with major participation by physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made a precise measurement of elusive, nearly massless particles, and obtained a crucial hint as to why the universe is dominated by matter, not by its close relative, anti-matter.
• With new high-tech materials, UW–Madison researchers aim to catalyze U.S. manufacturing future Nov. 6, 2012 Drawing on methods similar to those used to sequence the human genome, a multi-university team of researchers aims to discover and create revolutionary advanced materials that could help solve grand challenges in such areas as energy, national security and human health.
• Scientists begin effort to stir up a cosmic dynamo in the lab Oct. 24, 2012 For scientists trying to understand the subtleties of cosmic dynamos - the magnetic field-inducing phenomena at the hearts of planets, stars and galaxies - the physics, for the most part, must be done at vast distances.
• Physicist to chair European scientific board Oct. 10, 2012 Baha Balantekin, Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics, has been elected chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the European Centre for Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Related Areas at Trento, Italy.
• Hydrogen beam injector guides plasma physics research Sept. 26, 2012 The Madison Symmetric Torus, a leading piece of equipment in plasma physics research for more than 20 years, recently gained a new capability with the installation of a neutral beam injector.
• UW scientists play key role in discovery of a new particle consistent with Higgs boson July 4, 2012 Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aided by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have narrowed the search for the elusive Higgs boson, discovering a new particle with a mass in the region of 125 GeV.
• Four UW–Madison students attending prestigious Nobel conference July 2, 2012
• 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.