Tag Physics
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 the Earth’s atmosphere, will soon be on its way from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to Arizona’s Mount Hopkins.
Ingersoll Physics Museum celebrates 100 years of hands-on education
Last year, more than 14,000 visitors came to the free museum to spin bicycle-wheel gyroscopes, crank electrical generators, and yank on pulleys.
Advance could enable novel high-performance materials
An engineering physics professor has created new materials that behave in an unusual way that defies the standard theory engineers use for designing things like buildings, airplanes, bridges and electronic devices.
Stellar magnetism: What’s behind the most brilliant lights in the sky?
"The best picture yet of magnetic reconnection in space” offer insight into the role of magnetic reconnection in celestial explosions, eruptions and extraordinary emissions of energy.
UW lab in Stoughton has equipped complex scientific projects for 50 years
“Without PSL, I would be a lonely theorist writing papers,” says Francis Halzen, UW–Madison physics professor and longtime principal investigator for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole.
IceCube helps demystify strange radio bursts from deep space
A University of Wisconsin–Madison physicist and his colleagues are turning IceCube, the world’s most sensitive neutrino telescope, to the task of helping demystify powerful pulses of radio energy generated up to billions of light-years from Earth.
Coral skeletons may resist the effects of acidifying oceans
Coral skeletons are the building blocks of diverse coral reef ecosystems, which has led to increasing concern over how these key species will cope with warming and acidifying oceans that threaten their stability.
Isotope maker breaks ground in Janesville: UW–Madison spinoff to employ 150
SHINE Medical Technologies, a firm spawned from research in the UW–Madison College of Engineering, broke ground today (Aug. 3) on “Building One” at its new location just south of Janesville.
Fox Racing’s founder got his start motorbiking at UW
UW grads Geoff and Josie Fox combined backgrounds in physics and art history, an appreciation for adventure, and a willingness to change course to gain incredible traction in the action sports industry.
UW helps create the largest neutrino detectors in the world
A new era in neutrino physics in the United States is underway, and UW–Madison’s Physical Sciences Laboratory in Stoughton is playing a key role.
Dark matter detection receives 10-ton upgrade
The researchers’ goal is to take the experiment online as quickly as possible to compete in a global race to be the first to detect dark matter.
UW-Madison astrophysics innovator Lawler wins national award
James Lawler is a professor of physics known for devising techniques to measure the chemical elements in the sun and other stars.
Ocean temperatures faithfully recorded in mother-of-pearl
Mother-of-pearl or nacre (pronounced nay-ker), the lustrous, tough-as-nails biomineral that lines some seashells, has been shown to be a faithful record of ancient ocean temperature.
UW getting electron beam lithography system for nanotech research
Researchers from four UW campuses around the state will benefit from the new system, which uses a specialized technique for creating patterns 5,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
IceCube search for the ‘sterile neutrino’ draws a blank
With the latest results from the icy observatory at the South Pole, scientists are almost certain that there is no such particle.
Antenna design turns entire vehicles into broadcasting equipment
UW–Madison engineers are working to increase the effective size of antennas by turning the military vehicles that carry them into transmitters.
New material combines useful, typically incompatible properties
A team of engineers and physicists has created an entirely new material in which completely contradictory properties can coexist.
Feds renew big IceCube Observatory contract with UW–Madison
IceCube, consisting of 5,000 optical sensors buried deep in the ice beneath the South Pole, reported the first detection of high energy cosmic neutrinos in 2013.
UW-Madison spinoff receives construction permit for medical isotope plant in Janesville
This is the first time since 1961 that the NRC has issued a permit for a facility to make the life-saving isotopes.
Lab keeps cancer treatment radiation machines honest
As radiation sources used to attack cancer grow in number and complexity, a UW–Madison center offers the last word on accurate radiation doses.