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.
According to a new study by state researchers, the color green should no longer be associated with envy, but with happiness.
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that will allow University of Wisconsin institutions to perform classified national security research.
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.
A US expert says innovation is the best way to tackle a changing climate. Last night, Professor Molly Jahn from the University of Wisconsin delivered the RD Watt lecture at the University of Sydney saying innovation in agricultural and food systems is imperative for society?s survival and development.
Noted: Other bills of note allow University of Wisconsin System researchers to perform classified national security work in campus facilities, give county jailors more authority to strip search inmates, and legalize nonprofits? rubber-duck race fundraisers. The state Justice Department has warned such races amount to illegal gambling.
Students and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed an easier, cheaper and more efficient way to diagnose asthma, according to university news release.
Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have for the first time used infant hair to examine the hormonal environment to which the foetus was exposed during development.
A research team that includes bacteriologists from University of Wisconsin-Madison has been awarded a $16 million grant from the National Insititutes of Health to find new antibiotics to replace those that no longer work.
The first two years of college should be free at public schools and the federal and state governments should work together to change funding models and make it possible, according to a new paper by two UW-Madison professors.
If you?ve been looking for a natural pick-me-up, get like Thoreau and move to the woods. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that people who live in communities with more green space reported feeling lower levels of depression and anxiety.
The direction you?re moving can play tricks with your mind. That can mean trouble not only for travel but for human relations too
If you start feeling better mentally when spring comes, you are not alone.
So I turned to the UW-Madison?s experts database to see who might know something more about this research as it relates to soccer, and I found Dr. David Bernhardt.
And how the heck did it travel to Bavaria hundreds of years ago? OK, this story from the University of Wisconsin, Madison on the mysterious origins of bottom-fermenting lager yeast is a little “inside baseball” — for the anorak brigade, as the Brits might say — but it is interesting to brewers and beer lovers.
Lager drinkers can thank the birds for their favourite tipple. That is the conclusion of US scientists who say the yeast involved in making their beloved amber nectar could have been spread round the planet by migrating birds.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is now using advanced computing for quantitative research with support from the National Science Foundation, which works to connect scholars and technology, according to a Thursday release.
State economic development leaders on Thursday took 32 trade commissioners from 23 countries on a daylong bus tour designed to show Wisconsin makes more than beer and cheese. The tour included a stop at UW-Madison, for a presentation about the commercialization of university research discoveries and public-private partnerships over lunch at the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery.
A belowground experiment at the South Pole has now discovered three of the highest-energy neutrinos ever found, particles that may be created in the most violent explosions of the universe. These neutrinos all have energies at the absurdly high scale of peta?electron volts ? roughly the energy equivalent of one million times a proton?s mass. (As Albert Einstein showed in his famous E = mc2 equation, energy and mass are equivalent, and such a large amount of mass converts to an extreme level of energy.) The experiment, called IceCube, reported the discovery of the first two ? nicknamed Ernie and Bert ? last year, and announced the third Monday here at the American Physical Society meeting. ?Internally, it?s known as Big Bird,? said IceCube physicist Chris Weaver of the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
New apps help recovering alcoholics by providing instant access to support — a game-changer when it comes to recovery, according to one addiction expert.
SAVANNAH, Ga.?A belowground experiment at the South Pole has now discovered three of the highest-energy neutrinos ever found, particles that may be created in the most violent explosions of the universe. These neutrinos all have energies at the absurdly high scale of peta?electron volts?roughly the energy equivalent of one million times a proton?s mass. (As Albert Einstein showed in his famous E = mc2 equation, energy and mass are equivalent, and such a large amount of mass converts to an extreme level of energy.) The experiment, called IceCube, reported the discovery of the first two?nicknamed Ernie and Bert?last year, and announced the third Monday here at the American Physical Society meeting. ?Internally, it?s known as Big Bird,? said IceCube physicist Chris Weaver of the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
Not many people care about where the yeast that makes much of modern beer possible came from. But science cares.
Sean Carroll, a University of Wisconsin professor turned TV producer, wants more people to identify with their inner fish.
The changing landscape of academic research calls for a change in the structure of UW-Madison research and graduate school administration, says a faculty work group.
A team of researchers led by Ian Duncan, professor of neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, reported last November in the journal glia that they have found the genetic basis for canine tremor disorder. Their findings hold implications for dog owners, dog breeders, and families of individuals with certain disorders.
The creator of the “hockey stick” graph showing a sharp increase in Earth?s temperature will be speaking at UW-Madison April 17.
The University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate voted unanimously Monday to accept a plan to split job duties between two top level administrators in the area of research enterprise.
Madison, Wisconsin – By studying nerve cells that originated in patients with a severe neurological disease, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has pinpointed an error in protein formation that could be the root of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
A few decades ago, inequality started rising in countries around the world. That came as a shock to many economists who originally thought inequality tended to go down overtime. They wondered how inequality could rise in so many different places at once. Well, now a new book by one of the world?s leading experts on the topic suggests an answer to that mystery. Jacob Goldstein of our Planet Money team reports. Quoted: Steven Durlaf, professor of economics.
An American forensic lab announced Monday it has independently confirmed through DNA testing that the remains recovered from a German ossuary in France are indeed U.S. Army Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon, who was mistakenly buried with the enemy after World War II.
After playing in every game for some 14 years in baseball, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees – “The Iron Horse” – took himself out of the lineup because his manager wouldn?t. He had been dropping balls, unable to get to routine plays, hitting in the low .100s, shuffling rather than running.
?The winter is a pretty incredible time of year,? Jonathan Pauli told me. Looking out the window of his office at Wisconsin?s stubborn crust of snow, it occurred to me that ?incredible? might not be the most popular adjective, especially this year, as a harrowing winter slowly releases its grip on the United States.
?It started over beer in a meeting in China in 1998,? said professor John Valley. In Beijing that year, Valley met with Simon Wilde, who was able to provide him and a graduate student with what they needed: ?the oldest oxygen on earth [that they] could find.?
UW coaches, like Bo Ryan, and Google Glass are helping a team of UW-Madison surgeons improve their skills.
A new study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 of every 68 children in the U.S. has autism. This is means autism is more than twice as common as it was seven years ago. A researcher explains why the increase in numbers and whether we should be concerned by them.
MADISON, Wis. ? University of Wisconsin institutions could conduct classified national security research under a bill that has passed the state Senate.
Two rival research groups set out in 1987 to answer a tantalizing question: Could a diet kept meager in calories pay off in longevity?
The results of a longitudinal study, which tested diet and aging in monkeys, shows that consuming calorie-restricted food leads to a significant reduction in mortality and age-related diseases, a discovery that is expected to help scientists develop drugs and other treatments to increase longevity and improve health among humans.
Reducing calorie intake by just 10 per cent could make people live longer, new research suggests.
Extreme calorie counting boosts lifespan in monkeys, according to new research.
For decades, a group of rhesus monkeys has been under observation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Half were randomly selected to eat as much as they desired for the rest of their lives, while the rest were stuck on nutritious, but heavily restricted diets consisting of 30 percent fewer calories. The number of monkeys has slowly dwindled over the years, with scientists taking notes on how each one died.
The state Senate is set to vote on a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin institutions to conduct classified national security research.
