We often treat paternity leave like a company perk—something HR lists next to the gym stipend and the 401k match. The research says we are wrong about that categorization. Paternity leave should be part of routine medical care during this stage of life: interventions we already agree are worth investing in because the return on investment continues years later in a child’s brain.
A byproduct produced by certain gut bacteria may directly accelerate the brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Elevated blood levels of this molecule, known as imidazole propionate, correlate with worse cognitive decline in humans and actively drive neurodegeneration in animal models. The findings were published in Nature Communications.
“Receiving this award feels really humbling, and also special, maybe particularly so during times that are challenging for work in environmental issues and conservation,” Burivalova told Mongabay by email. “I see getting an award like this to also mean taking the responsibility for doing as much as I can for biodiversity conservation in the years to come.”
An associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, U.S., and the principal investigator of the Sound Forest Lab, Burivalova has worked in forests across the world, including Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Peru, Madagascar, and Ecuador.
A 31-year-old Madison man was arrested early Friday after UW-Madison police issued an off-campus emergency alert about a man with a knife on Langdon Street.
At about 11:55 p.m. Thursday, the UW-Madison Police Department issued the alert after reports of a man with a knife, police said. The suspect fled the scene and officers were unable to immediately locate him.
Ferns come in many varieties, and most fern fronds will develop a yellow-gold hue in the fall, just like many other trees and plants in your yard.
“It’s a very normal and often welcome part of the changing of seasons,” horticulturist and garden designer Grace Coburn says.
However, if your fern develops too many yellow fronds too quickly—or you see webbing, sticky residue, or stippling on leaves in addition—it might be cause for concern. Here’s what pro horticulturists say you should know when your fern starts yellowing.
Scientific discovery takes a lot more than smarts. It often requires the audacity to think big, take chances and convince others to commit decades of time and millions of dollars.
That’s what UW-Madison professor Francis Halzen and his team did in spectacular ways, winning the Nobel Prize for physics last week. All of Wisconsin should be proud of his hard work, adventurous mind and the window he built into the universe at the bottom of the Earth.
Question: How do we know if an extreme weather event is due to our changing climate?
Answer: Weather events result from an interaction of many factors, including current conditions of the atmosphere. Weather is considered extreme when it’s far outside of normal for a particular place and time. Weather-related extreme events include heat waves, freezes, heavy downpours and tornadoes. Attributing an extreme weather event to the observed climate change is referred to as the science of extreme event attribution.
The author of UW-Madison’s campuswide book club pick is visiting the university next month.
Go Big Read is a nearly two-decade-old UW-Madison program that encourages campus and community members to have discussions around one book over the course of a year.
