Category: Research

The census? preliminary numbers were in disagreement with annual statistics provided by the USDA that have shown a decline over the past five years of state agricultural land that has been diverted to other uses, according to Bruce Jones, an agricultural economics professor at UW-Madison.

It has been a long three months since we camped out at the site of the Rising Star caves outside Johannesburg, and the summer growth has erased the signs of our presence. There?s no evidence of the Science Tent, and the paths we wore through the chunks of dolomite are now under grasses and red wildflowers.

A multi-university team of engineers has developed what could be a promising solution for charging smartphone batteries on the go, without an electrical cord, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday.

Farmers have traditionally gathered and saved seeds from one growing season to plant in the next. But this age-old tradition is being threatened by corporations that are increasingly restricting access to seeds through patents.

A funding shortfall that will force the closing of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Synchrotron Radiation Center near Stoughton is an example of how tight federal budgets are causing the United States to fall behind in global scientific research and development to Asian nations, said director Joseph Bisognano, a professor of engineering physics.

Why does a couple become a couple? Love? Friendship? Security? Someone to talk to? Economics?

A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher is piloting an Australian exercise program designed to help reduce falls among the elderly — the leading cause of injury for that age group.

Scientists say tests to put extra strong solar panels in the Antarctic have been successful.University of Wisconsin researchers simulated freezing weather conditions to put ?double glass? solar PV panels through their paces, including sub-zero temperatures for lengthy periods of time.

Related to recent UW research.

Early farmers boosted Earth?s temperature by 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) over a period of 8,000 years, a new study suggests.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison study challenges the benefits of all-boys or all-girls education in public schools.

The Great Lakes share a surprising connection with Wisconsin?s small lakes and aquifers ? their water levels all rise and fall on a 13-year cycle, according to a new study. But that cycle is now mysteriously out of whack, researchers have found.

Even though thousands of schools have adopted single-sex classrooms, there is little evidence of any benefit to the practice, according to a study done at UW-Madison.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist, internationally renowned for his groundbreaking research on how flu viruses in animals can adapt to humans, has received the 2014 Excellence in Research Award from the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges.

Noted: In Wisconsin, the company already has a research partnership with the University of Wisconsin, funding construction of labs at both UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison.

Noted: Similar research is underway by researchers at University of California at Irvine; a group from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin; another group from MIT, Yale and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and a fourth from Stealth Software Technologies, a Los Angeles-based technology company.

Despite this harsh winter, researchers at UW-Madison are predicting changes for the future.

Spare a minute from your frenetically busy day to consider the quite different life of the three-toed sloth.

A group of University of Wisconsin researchers have constructed a way to create sugar chains that can be used as a reliable biofuel source.

One bottle in professor Jim Dumesic?s chemical engineering lab stands out from the rest these days.

Attention, Kristen Bell: a researcher at the University of Wisconsin has finally solved why three-toed sloths climb all the way to the forest floor to poop, once every three weeks. (We?ve been lying awake at night trying to figure that one out, so surely the question?s been plaguing everyone?s favorite sloth fan.)

Biofuel production focuses on taking the carbon that?s already present in plants and converting it into burnable carbon-based fuels. Most of the carbon in a plant comes in the form of sugars, which can be readily converted into ethanol and less readily modified into other fuels.