Category: Research

Scientists may have discovered a form of language used by animals, similar to that used by our own ancestors.

Animals use organised sound patterns to communicate with each other in a system that scientists believe is similar to early human language.

“We have recorded a father talking quietly to his daughter,” said Michael Coen, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has developed an algorithm that is helping to decipher the language of gibbons.

Madison WKOW– A bad flu season in Wisconsin continues to be problematic for health officials statewide. According to UW researchers, the number of hospitalizations this season is now up 1,813 people.

Noted: He adds that the fact that a scholar like Jonathan Mark Kenoyer is one of the advisers of the project underlines the importance of the site. Dr. Kenoyer, Chair and professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a specialist in Harappan archaeology with more than 35 years’ of field experience.

The year 2014 offered many significant weather events, including twin tornadoes in Nebraska, the extreme amount of lake-effect snow in Buffalo, N.Y., and drought conditions from California to Brazil.

I am a proud recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. When I walked across the stage at my graduation ceremony in May, I looked out across the crowd at the smiling faces of the family, friends and faculty members, all who helped make this dream become a reality.

Running truck convoys through the wilds of Afghanistan, U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew Stoppenbach drove on roads that resembled rocky trails and desert paths where blowing sand, deep ruts and searing heat took a toll on vehicles and troops.

The capital city and its flagship university, research-based UW-Madison, will play a prominent role, but the founders want it to reach statewide. “The idea is to make it primarily Wisconsin-based,” said David Nelson, a retired UW-Madison biochemistry professor. “Not just the university but the whole state.”

Quoted: “There seems to be a lot in our brains and animal brains that is directional that neural signals move in a particular direction, then stop, and start somewhere else,” said Dr. Giulio Tononi, a psychiatry professor and neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study’s co-authors. “I think this is really a new theme that had not been explored.”

Forty percent of Americans are evangelical Christians, and many of them reject evolution. Jeff Hardin, chairman of the University of Wisconsin’s zoology department, takes this personally. Hardin is an evangelical, but much of his evangelism is directed at his fellow believers. He wants to persuade them that evolution and Christianity are compatible.

For more than a decade, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have tracked hundreds of state residents with a family history of Alzheimers disease, collecting information about everything from their dietary and exercise habits to whats inside their brains, blood and genes.

The findings could indicate that biblical accounts of David and Solomon described real kings rather than the backwater chieftains considered more likely by some archaeologists.

As students at the University of Wisconsin know, it can get bitterly cold in Madison during December. But for Kristina Slawny, who serves as program director of the Ice Drilling Design and Operations IDDO arm of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center SSEC, those frigid temperatures might seem downright balmy.

Jeff Blakely from the University of Wisconsin-Madison said: ’Our dates for the bullae are based on multiple types of evidence we combined to determine a general 10th century BC date.’

A Mississippi State University professor and a team of archaeologists discovered ancient artifacts that might offer proof of the existence of biblical civilizations controlled by David and Solomon.

It’s almost cruel to talk about sweet corn in December. But then, it does give us one more reason to look ahead past winter.

Noted: To investigate, Dr Natali and Nigel Golden, from the University of Wisconsin, looked at ground squirrels: small, fluffy rodents that are found across the Arctic.

If you want to start a space farm, head for an asteroid. It seems there’s enough fertiliser zipping around the solar system to grow veg for generations of space colonisers – and researchers are already beginning to grow viable, edible plants in space.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected as the Santa Fe Institute’s next president.

In the United States—as in all of the world’s wealthier nations—ending poverty is not a matter of resources. Many economists, including Timothy Smeeding of the University of Wisconsin and former director of the Institute for Research on Poverty have argued that every developed nation has the financial wherewithal to eradicate poverty. In large part this is because post-industrial productivity has reached the point where to suggest a deficit in resources is laughably disingenuous. And despite the occasional political grandstanding against welfare, there is no policy, ideology or political party that is on the books as pro-starvation, pro-homelessness, pro-death or anti-dignity.

A battery researcher whos spent time at Rayovac and in academia will lead energy storage research efforts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Deyang Qu will start in January as the Johnson Controls endowed professor in energy storage research at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the company and university are announcing Thursday. He also will be affiliated with the Wisconsin Energy Institute at UW-Madison.

University of Wisconsin researchers have developed a new variety of organic corn called “Who Gets Kissed?”

Poor sleep quality may be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research.

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked 98 people aged between 50 and 73 to fill in a questionnaire about their quality of sleep.The volunteers also underwent brain scans.

“Who Gets Kissed?” is the name of a new organic sweet corn developed by the UW-Madison and a nonprofit called the Organic Seed Alliance.

A mega volcano field in Chile has the potential to trigger an eruption 100 times bigger than that seen at Mount St Helens, experts have said.

Lake sturgeon have been on the planet for 150 million years. Despite that long residency, scientists are still learning about these fish, the largest found in North America. An enduring question is what contributes to their survival skills. Answer: Sound. As one factor anyway.

A new computer system is better than scientists at the complex task of extracting data from scientific publications and placing it in a database that catalogues the results of thousands of individual studies.

As men in blue and gray uniforms fell dead and artillery shells whistled overhead, Capt. John Cornelius McMullen noticed a flower growing outside his tent while his unit laid siege to Atlanta.

Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll, executive producer of the doc Mass Extinction: Life At the Brink, on why mankind’s days are numbered.

Noted: Over all, research finds that single-sex education does not show significant academic benefits — or drawbacks. Janet Hyde, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who analyzed 184 studies covering 1.6 million children around the globe, said the studies showing increased academic performance often involved other factors that could not be disentangled from the effects of the single-gender component.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison offers one of the most detailed records of the variation in temperature between cities and the surrounding rural areas, known as the urban heat island effect.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison started mapping pollution in the country by following grievances about it on social media.

Most drugs now used to treat the flu have a straightforward strategy: attack the virus. But a new study out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposes that it might be possible to take another approach. Researchers there have discovered a way to reduce the cellular material inside a person that influenza cells use to multiply. A news release from the university likens it to “cutting the fuel line on a bank robber’s getaway car.”

In order to better understand how the brain works, one of the areas cognitive neuroscientists are exploring is how it functions while we are dreaming and how we process information while we observe actual events.

China has some of the world’s worst pollution. But tracking it in all but the biggest cities can be impossible since local governments don’t release any data to the public.

A study probing directional flow of information in the brain has revealed that opposite pathways are at work when perceiving reality and daydreaming.