Category: Research

Dan Vinmont, a University of Wisconsin climatologist shares projections for how el niño will affect Wisconsin this coming winter.

What is the environmental cost of a meal eaten at a student union? Thomas W. Bryan, a graduate student in environment and resources at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, sought to answer that question by tracing food-supply chains to determine the carbon footprint of each menu item.

But now, engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have come up with technology that enables energy to be harvested from moving tires.

Since the late 1960s, psilocybin mushrooms have been illegal in the United States due to their hallucinogenic effects on the human mind.

The UW2020 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Discovery Initiative has received an overwhelming number of responses to their new grant research program.

The UW2020 program, which began in 2014, has received an array of responses from faculty and academic staff. All staff with permanent principle investigator status are eligible to apply, and some 150 applications have already been received.

The identification of zebra mussels in Lake Mendota in Madison was the result of a class project from UW-Madison.

Experts say extra vigilance will be needed to prevent Lake Mendota zebra mussels from invading other lakes.

As scientific fields rapidly evolve, putting more emphasis on effective communication skills and accessibility, the newest president of the Ecological Society of America said she will use decades of experience as an ecologist to navigate the organization through changing times.

For decades, the massive mastodon skeleton that sits in the UW-Madison Geology Museum has been known as the Boaz mastodon, named for the Richland County village in which its bones were found in the late 1890s.

A team of Wisconsin scientists recently came closer to uncovering the elusive process by which nacre, more commonly known as mother-of-pearl, is created in nature.

A UW-Madison ecologist who has made a career out of studying an ecosystem’s resilience to disaster has been named president of the Ecological Society of America.

On April 13, a pregnant ewe involved in a research program at UW-Madison died from respiratory issues while being moved back to her pen following surgery.

The subatomic particle known as a neutrino is nicknamed the ghost particle. Every day trillions of them stream through the Earth without ever interacting with the matter around them. But scientists can detect neutrinos using specialized sensors deep underground.

By painstakingly pulling public records, however, Paul Barford has done it. Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin, has created the first public map of the Internet as it exists today, making a hard-to-place form of infrastructure as tangible as the railroad network.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say studies show blaze pink is easier for humans to see and harder for animals to spot—but Wisconsin hunters (and hunters across the U.S.) currently face a penalty if they’re not wearing blaze orange. The blaze pink bill, discussed in a public hearing last week, could change that.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Urban Canid Project said recent reports of the conflicts — and in some cases, attacks — have come from Madison, Milwaukee, Neenah and Mequon. Some coyotes have attacked and killed dogs, or even followed residents who were walking their dog.

On April 13, a pregnant ewe involved in a research program at UW-Madison died from respiratory issues while being moved back to her pen following surgery.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined the variations and trends in the onset of spring across the Northern Hemisphere’s temperate regions and calculated that the onset of spring plant growth will shift by a median of three weeks earlier over the next century. Their findings were published in the journal Environmental Research Letters yesterday.

Deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, sensors buried in a billion tons of ice—a cubic kilometer of frozen H2O—are searching for neutrinos. Not just any kind of neutrino, though. The IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory wants to discover the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and thus solve one of science’s oldest mysteries.

Two India-born engineers are part of a team that won a big case against Apple Inc. in the U.S. this week.