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UW-Rock County: March 13

On Wednesday, March 13, we’ll be in the Rock County/Evansville area for a few events. Early in the day, physics graduate student …

Ice drilling

Ice Drilling

The IceCube project at the South Pole has transformed a cubic kilometer of ice into the world’s weirdest and largest telescope. Engineers …

WIPAC researchers spent the morning visiting Greenwood elementary school and River Falls High School.  Fourth grade students investigated ice-drilling techniques similar to those used that the South Pole when building the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

River Falls in photos

The kick-off event for the Bringing the Universe to Wisconsin series was hosted at UW-River Falls. Faculty and students at River Falls …

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LED programming with IceCube

Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs produce light when electrons inside semiconductors drop from a higher to lower energy level.  The color produced is …