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NEWS


NASA Science Chief invites all to ‘do NASA science’

Nicky Fox shares joy of NASA discoveries and UD research partnerships during April 18 visit
 

Making Delaware-in-space history

NASA selects UD’s CubeSat spacecraft for upcoming mission
 

UD’s Eclipse Chasers head for Texas ‘totality’

Students to collect data as part of NASA’s nationwide eclipse ballooning program
 
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UD physicist Frank Schroeder shovels a trench for cables leading to a radio antenna he deployed at the South Pole.

​Data From the Cosmos​

In summer 2021, data gathered by the the world’s largest observatory, IceCube, provided a group of 16 undergraduate and graduate students from UD and five other institutions with the opportunity to contribute to research on neutrinos, high-energy subatomic particles that speed through space. The students, most on the UD campus and a few working remotely, used supercomputers to analyze data from IceCube as they developed their own research and computer skills.​


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