A letter to the editor from Eric Sandgren, director of the UW?Madison Research Animal Resource Center, in response to an opinion piece written by an animal rights advocate about monkey research.
UW-Madison Consumer Science Professor Nancy Wong explains the appeal of “secret menu” items to customers and restaurants.
Michael Alkire, associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of California, Irvine, was one of the first people involved in the search for neural correlates of consciousness, back in the 1990s. He?s particularly excited now about a study published in August by an international team of researchers based at the University of São Paulo and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Joy Zedler carefully planned the three experimental wetlands at the University of Wisconsin?Madisons Arboretum to be identical: parallel marshes 295 feet long and 15 feet wide, carved by engineers into the green landscape. Zedlers contractors planted all three tracts with similar species to see how the vegetation would absorb and clean water runoff during storms.
When Great Oaks Venture Capital decided to expand its reach and build digital start-up companies in Wisconsin, it didn?t take long for the New York firm to figure out where to begin: Madison. Andy Boszhardt Jr. and John Philosophos, two University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, turned to their alma mater?s highly regarded computer science department to collaborate on a venture that invests in and supports technology companies launched by student entrepreneurs.
Move over, Lucy: Researchers say Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus may also be in the sky, with diamonds.The atmospheres of these gas-ball planets have the perfect temperature and pressure conditions to host carbon in the form of diamond, say Mona Delitsky of California Specialty Engineering in Pasadena, California, and Kevin Baines of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“People experiencing an increase in anxiety show a decrease in the perceived pleasantness of odors,” study co-author Dr. Wen Li, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in a written statement. “It becomes more negative as anxiety increases … We encounter anxiety and as a result we experience the world more negatively.”
High levels of stress makes can make the world stink ? literally. In an effort to map the human sense of smell, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that anxiety and stress may temporarily rewire the brain by linking olfaction to emotion. As a result, neutral scents begin to take on malodorous characteristics.
Words that make objects appear from thin air are generally the stuff of the magical worlds of Harry Potter or The Hobbit. But a new experiment (by Gary Lupyan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison) has been shown that words can make objects easier to recognise, as our sense of vision can be altered by other sensory inputs.
8. Madison, WI … Happiness hub: The University of Wisconsin?Madison Arboretum, which includes prairies, savannas, and 20 miles of trails
A leaked early version of a major forthcoming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations-affiliated panel of scientists that is often cited as the world?s top authority on global warming, is grabbing headlines this week. [Includes comment from Jim Kossin, one of the report’s authors and research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.]
Buried deep in the ice below the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, IceCube is the world?s largest and most remote neutrino observatory.
People who suffer sudden cardiac arrest at a fitness center are more likely to survive than those stricken at other indoor locations such as restaurants or malls, according to a new study by Dr. Richard Page, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
SatCam is one of several smartphone apps which hope to take user submitted data to improve weather research and forecasting. However, it?s the only one so far to give something directly back to the user in return.
Because I?m such an unabashed weather geek, I check in most days with the awesome blog of the [UW-Madison’s] Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. This morning was no exception, and what I found was a short post about a possible midget typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean.
