Tropical storms are migrating out of the tropics, reaching their peak intensity in higher latitudes, where larger populations are concentrated, a new NOAA-led study published in the journal
UW-Madison Professor Jason Fletcher looked at data before and after the attacks and compared the data to DNA information reported by respondents in a survey. The aim was to get an objective rather than self-reported look at stress.
Tiny crustaceans in Lake Mendota are distant cousins of sea monkeys ? but they are more like the cattle of the lake.
The taxpayer-funded University of Wisconsin?Madison is now offering a pioneering postdoctoral fellowship in feminist biology.
A new program at the University of Wisconsin, called ?Feminist Biology,? teaches biology with an emphasis on women in the field. We all know we need more women in science; but, is it necessary to teach biology through a feminist gaze?
Thomas “Rock” Mackie, director of medical engineering at the Morgridge Institute for Research and an emeritus professor at UW, has been picked to receive the William D. Coolidge Award, the highest prize given out by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
UW-Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz said she and co-workers collected 250 ticks during three trips to the Sandburg Woods park near East Towne Mall starting on April 19.
When the University of Wisconsin announced last month it had endowed country?s first-ever post-doctoral program in feminist biology ? ?which attempts to uncover and reverse gender bias in biology? ? the backlash was swift. ?Memo to the University of Wisconsin,? Christina Hoff Sommers sniffed in an American Enterprise Institute video, ?we don?t need feminist biology any more than we need femistry or galgebra.?
Cows create a lot of body heat and use a large amount of energy in the process of producing milk. ?When you are comfortable, a cow is warm; when you are hot, a cow is miserable; and when you are cold, a cow is probably fine,? explained Dr. Lou Armentano, a professor in the Department of Dairy Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On those hot summer days, cows immediately respond to the high temperature with decreased milk production.
Researchers at UW-Madison who conduct an annual study of poverty have found jobs and earnings are beginning to rise again as the Badger State recovers from the recession.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who conduct an annual study of poverty have found jobs and earnings are beginning to rise again as the Badger State recovers from the recession.
The average Wisconsin temperatures could rise anywhere from three to nine degrees by mid-century, a new White House National Climate Assessment report said this week.
The poverty level continued to drop in Wisconsin in 2012, thanks to increases in jobs and earnings, according to a new study released by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
As Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin has now shown, the problem is that pro-business policies don?t really contribute to economic growth. They just make the rich richer, which is not the same thing at all.
Noted: As agriculture systems have adapted to the climate, costs have increased, said Jack Williams, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research. That trend is expected to continue.
A ribbon cutting Monday for a one-of-a-kind lab on the UW campus.
Stem cells were first discovered at the University of Toronto in the 1960s and have since become one of the most promising fields in biological research. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that have the ability to differentiate into a variety of specialized cells under the right conditions.
The topic of de-extinction is growing and the thought of extinct animals coming back to life is a controversy that has seized the opinions of scientists in today?s age.
For a sociologist, the value of field notes can?t be overstated. Yet Alice Goffman felt deep relief at destroying hers – shredding the notebooks, then disposing of the hard drive kept in a safe-deposit box under someone else?s name.
The University of Wisconsin?s IceCube neutrino detection system has been quietly operating amid Antarctica?s barren tundra for more than four years now. In that time, the fledgling detector has captured more than 100 cosmic neutrinos, many of which originated far outside our Milky Way galaxy. And if project leaders get their way, its imaging quality is about to improve by an order of magnitude.
True or false? Women are more emotional than men. Boys are better than girls at math and science.
David Wassarman, professor of cell and regenerative biology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, described flies as ?humans with wings? at the McArdle Seminar in Cancer Biology Wednesday.
Every year since 1994, statistics gathered by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that just over 8 percent of children’s books published in the United States represented nonwhites.
Sixteen new varieties of maple and alder trees developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been planted in six communities in an experiment to judge how well the trees stand up against disease, pests and other assaults.
When newly minted Ph.D.s go on the job market, they usually have questions about the teaching load, research money and tenure prospects. Alice Goffman, now an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had another query, too: Would she be allowed to get arrested and go to prison?
Parting may be such sweet sorrow, but staying together? That may be another kind altogether, a new study on marriage and depression suggests.
When newly minted Ph.D.s go on the job market, they usually have questions about the teaching load, research money and tenure prospects. Alice Goffman, now an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had another query, too: Would she be allowed to get arrested and go to prison?
Three University of Wisconsin-Madison professors have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors conferred on American scientists and engineers, the organization announced Tuesday.
Those who experience chronic marital stress are less able to savor positive experiences, and are more vulnerable to depression, according to a long-term study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and their colleagues.
Since being the site of the first place to isolate stem cells in non-human primates, the University of Wisconsin has continued to pave the way for scientific research in the field.
It?s long been said that marriage is good for your health, but as anyone who has gone through divorce knows, a bad marriage can take a huge toll on your well being — and now a new study is proof of that.
Married people are generally happier and healthier than single people, but chronic marital stress may make people more vulnerable to depression, say UW-Madison researchers.
At the memory unit in St. Mary?s Care Center in Madison, everyone has a Grandpa Dave.
There are three big lessons that all investors could learn from professional gamblers. That was one of the first things I learned when I went back to school this week. The Wisconsin School of Business, located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, runs a program for visiting business journalists. Each semester, they invite one down for a packed few days — meeting with professors about their research, touring the facilities, chatting with students about the work they?re doing as well.
Lawns can be the frame around a home or a colorful garden. To keep them looking good and thriving however, they take a fair amount of attention. That means more chemical treatments and watering than some homeowners feel comfortable using.
As people begin reading this sentence, vesicles, or packages within cells transporting cargo-like neurotransmitters, are being released instantly and rapidly over a chain of nerves connecting their eyes to their brain, helping them view and process the words on the page.
Being married can make people more prone to depression, a study reveals.
After years of advice from experts telling us that marriage helps keep us happy, healthy and longer-lived, a study has found that it can also lead to depression.
When you put 4 engineers in a room, theyre certain to get to work.
Sarah Sandock, Mehdi Shokoueinejad, Yei Hwan Jung and Akshay Kumar are all engineering students at UW Madison… and all part of a successful team.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking for a particular kind of biologist: a feminist one. The university has set up a fellowship, administered by its women’s studies department, for life sciences research. An interview with UW psychologist Janet Hyde.
Kraft Foods is recalling 96,000 pounds of Oscar Mayer Classic Wieners because the packages may instead contain Classic Cheese Dogs, which are made with milk – a known allergen. Adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Meat and Muscle Biology Lab and former fellow at the Oscar Mayer Division of Kraft Foods describes how this happens and how a company like Kraft recalls tons of hot dogs.
After noticing the ways people interact dynamically with their environments during travel, researchers from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Toronto decided to explore the phenomenon.
For Earth Day, gardeners can help ensure vegetable, fruit and grain seeds remain available to everyone by ordering a set of open-source seeds from the University of Wisconsin ? Madison. Gardeners and farmers can save open-source seeds after harvest and pass the plants on for generations. Breeders can use the open-source crops to develop new varieties.
A study by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists suggests the best way of stemming the spread of chronic wasting disease among whitetail deer is to kill more bucks, which are most likely to carry CWD and spread the disease among the species.
MADISON ? Caledonia resident Steve Wishau is part of a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering students building a 3-D printer for NASA.
We learn how to be parents from our own mom and pop, right?
Noted: Eric Johnson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has studied botulinum toxin for 30 years. He says at the moment, it?s not possible to know whether Arnon really has discovered a novel toxin.
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) ? Linguists aren?t often called upon to solve crimes, but when a child was abducted in Illinois more than a decade ago, a handwritten ransom note was all police had to go on.
Wisconsin’s dairy industry faces new challenges to its continued prosperity, from environmental pressures on the land and water that sustain it to consumer trends that compel product innovation. Fostering that kind of innovation is the goal of the TURBO project within the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research.
Many medical experts believe the world is facing a global public health crisis. Every year the Center for Disease Control says more than two million patients in hospitals get infections that are resistant to antibiotics.
When you think of a pregnancy ultrasound you probably think about the mother. But, what is it like to be the other half?
A complete necropsy will be performed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. In a paper published this year, a team of researchers led by Tony Goldberg of the SVM concluded that the previous death of an orangutan at the zoo raised concerns about the health of captive apes in similar settings.
There are now 29 kinds of plant varieties that are available under an open source license, reports NPR. On Thursday, a group of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison debuted the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI), a set of seeds that can be used by anyone so long as they don?t restrict use by others through patents or IP protection.
A group of MIT scientists want to revive the nuclear industry in the post-Fukushima era by moving it offshore.
A group of scientists and food activists is launching a Thursday to change the rules that govern seeds. They?re releasing 29 new varieties of crops under a new “open source pledge” that?s intended to safeguard the ability of farmers, gardeners and plant breeders to share those seeds freely.
Gardening and technology couldn?t, perhaps, seem more different, but don?t you believe it: a new initiative out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will soon see your veg patch become an open source project.
Noted: But many small seed companies and breeders may not find that helpful, critics say. ?It?s hard for small companies not only to access germ plasm, but also, many of them don?t have the wherewithal to use this new technology,? said Bill Tracy, a professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin. ?So in a sense, it puts them at a double disadvantage.?
Physicists are proposing nuclear power plants be relocated offshore on floating platforms, so another Fukushima disaster can never happen again.
Among the 55 bills Gov. Scott Walker signed into law Wednesday was Assembly Bill 729, which will alter the rules currently in place across the University of Wisconsin System prohibiting classified research.
One in 68 children in the U.S. has an autism spectrum disorder, and the University of Wisconsin?s Waisman Center is researching what happens to these individuals as they reach adulthood and adolescence.
