Francis Halzen named a winner of the 2014 American Ingenuity Award

Halzen is being honored for his decades-long effort to build a massive, cubic kilometer telescope under the Antarctic ice to detect cosmic neutrinos. Last year, the telescope yielded the first evidence of cosmic neutrinos, nearly massless high-energy particles thought to come from cosmic sources such as supernovae, black holes and the violent cores of galaxies. The work opened a new field of astronomy.

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Wisconsin Science Festival 2014 – Visit website for lots of activity options

The Wisconsin Science Festival is the passion of a growing coalition of scientists, artists, citizens and organizations dedicated to engaging everyone in the wonder and power of science, technology, engineering, art and math.

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Mark Saffman on the radio show “Perpetual Motion Machine”

Mark Saffman discusses quantum reality and its implications for quantum computing in a 30 minute radio show on WORT.

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Justin Vandenbroucke turns smartphones into pocket cosmic ray detectors

With a simple app addition, Android phones, and likely other smartphone brands in the not-too-distant future, can be turned into detectors to capture the light particles created when cosmic rays crash into Earth’s atmosphere.

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