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- November 4, 2009
- What can neutrinos tell us about the universe?: IceCube is featured in the December 2009 issue of Astronomy magazine - "Astronomers are studying subatomic particles from supernovae and other energetic phenomena, but such particles are difficult to detect." A subscription is required to read the article.
- September 4, 2009
- Greetings From Antarctica: The UW leads "Big Science" projects to discover clues to the cosmos. Mark Krasberg avoids the worst weeks of Wisconsin's harsh winters by lighting out for sunny Antarctica. There, at the bottom of the world, the UW-Madison physics researcher is helping to build a $270 million telescope, called Ice Cube, that promises to bring into focus some of the most violent and intriguing phenomena in the universe.
- August 28, 2009
- Down the hole: Special instrument provides complementary information to ice core records. Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland and elsewhere in the world serve as a way for scientists to travel back in time to understand past climate. They analyze such things as the trapped bubbles of gas, chemicals, insoluble dust and trace metals found in the ice to reconstruct the cycles of glacial advance and retreat, the waxing and waning of temperature, the sudden appearance of droughts and volcanic eruptions.
- August 14, 2009
- Héctor Rubinstein in memoriam: It is with deep sorrow we announce that our colleague and friend Héctor Rubinstein passed away last Saturday the 8th of August 2009 at Ingarö in the Stockholm archipelago.
- July 8, 2009
- Gaisser wins prestigious Humboldt Award: Thomas K. Gaisser, UD's Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy, has received Germany's Humboldt Research Award in recognition of lifetime achievements in research.
- June 24, 2009
- Interview: Living it up at the South Pole: Vladimir Papitashvili has spent his working life in the Earth's most frigid places. But today, as head scientist at the US's new "station-on-legs" at the South Pole, he spends his days in comparative luxury. As Antarctic midwinter approaches, he tells Anil Ananthaswamy about his adventures and how he helped remove an appendix on the Antarctic ice sheet
- Jerri FitzGerald, Who Treated Herself at South Pole, Dies at 57: Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, a doctor who treated herself for breast cancer for months while stationed at the South Pole in 1999 and then when the weather thawed a bit was flown out in a daring rescue mission, died Tuesday at her home in Southwick, Mass. She was 57.
