Category: Research

A group of professors from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software?s vulnerability.

Noted: It?s not just the type of screen that matters, but what is on that screen. “The best research suggests that the content children view is the best predictor of cognitive effects,” says Heather Kirkorian who studies cognitive development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Children will learn from what they watch, whether that means learning letters and numbers, slapstick humour or aggressive behaviour,” she says, adding that children who watch age-appropriate, educational TV programmes often do better on tests of school readiness.

Extra sales taxes on soda may curb soda consumption, but that doesnt mean it reduces calorie intake, according to new research from health economist Jason Fletcher of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Health advocates have proposed ?sin taxes? as a way to curb behavior like smoking or snacking, but a new study suggests extra sales taxes on soda won?t decrease obesity.

Soda taxes don?t lead to lower obesity rates. That?s the finding of a study by UW Madison sociology professor Jason Fletcher. He said higher soda prices might lead to fewer purchases, but that?s not the end of the story.

If interactive robots were able to pause during conversation and take a moment to gaze off into the distance as if pondering what the user was saying, research suggests this small change could make them seem less robotic.

NASA has released an interactive mosaic of infrared images of the Milky Way. It is the “clearest infrared panorama of our galactic home ever made,” according to the voiceover in the video below.

Most of us will never leave the Earth — but that doesn?t stop us dreaming of the stars. There are a few tools that let you explore, though, and NASA has just launched a killer.

Do yourself a favor. Don?t read this article just yet?first, take a moment to zoom around this incredible panorama of our galaxy and soak in the splendor:

Noted: The remains will go next to the University of Wisconsin for an anthropologist and odontologist to inspect. The lab there will also test the DNA to confirm the French results. The family has invited J-PAC to observe the process but has opted not to give the remains to the agency to examine independently.

It sounds like an awesome wintertime trip: Snowmobile to the middle of nowhere, set up camp and fly radio-controlled airplanes for a couple of weeks. Now take that same scenario and move it to Antarctica in the austral summer. Throw in a 10-hour snowmobile ride across the hard, wind-carved snow surface.

Noted: Professor John D Lee, of the University of Wisconsin, made his comments ahead of an Road Safety Authority (RSA) conference on driver distraction taking place in Dublin today.

Noted: Myers was pointing to research done by the Cooperative Children?s Book Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has counted the number of children?s books featuring people of colour since 1985. Ten years ago, of 3,200 books received by the centre, 171 were about black people, 95 about American Indians, 78 about Asians and 63 about Latinos. Last year, these numbers had fallen, with 93 of 3,200 books about black people, 34 about American Indians, 69 about Asians and 57 about Latinos.

The Weather Channel visits the Dairy Research Center at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station to examine the science of keeping cows happy and healthy in the winter.

University of Wisconsin-Madison is paying $35,000 in fines to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for violations related to the care of research animals, the university announced Monday in a release.

The Cooperative Children?s Book Center of the University of Wisconsin ? Madison found that of the new children?s books they received at their center, less than 3 percent focused on black people and even fewer were by black authors (about 2 percent, according to the CCBC.)

Noted: Stacie Robinson and co-authors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Alberta-Edmonton reported in the journal “Ecological Applications” that 41% of deer from the CWD core area of Wisconsin demonstrated resistance to CWD.

One of the ways that radiation causes illness is by damaging our DNA. University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist Michael Cox and his team wanted to find out whether they could breed the common bacteria E. coli to be more resistant to radiation damage. So they took a group of E. coli, bombarded it with radiation until 99 percent of the microbes were dead, and then bred a new generation from the survivors. After 20 rounds of this, they wound up with a group of E. coli that could repair radiation damage after being blasted with ionizing radiation that was four orders of magnitude greater than what their ancestors could endure.

Noted: Leanna says he was reluctant to seek help, or even admit that anything was wrong. But after he took part in a paid study of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he began practicing meditation. The experience completely changed his life, he says, and brought him the peace of mind that had eluded him since he went into combat years before. Now, Leanna teaches mindfulness and deep breathing to other veterans as part of Project Welcome Home Troops.

Dealing effectively with oil and chemical spills could be made easier with the help of an improved form of aerogel developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Uejio received his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in environmental studies, where he worked on the study with other researchers from UW-Madison, the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation and the U.S. Agriculture Research Service.

ORLANDO, FLORIDA ? Small satellite-tracking devices attached to sea turtles swimming off Florida?s coast have delivered first-of-its-kind data that could help unlock they mystery of what endangered turtles do during the ?lost years.?

Noted: The study, which appears in the current issue of Child Abuse & Neglect, was also co-authored with Lawrence Berger of the University of Wisconsin.

Universities throughout the Midwest are doing more and more organic agriculture research, and the scholarship is having an impact on the organic industry.

Scientists working on the bendable glass project at Los Alamos are teaming up with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain, and Tohoku University in Japan.

Success will hinge on something called ?transference,? says C. Shawn Green, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who studies the effects of games on the brain.

As the 100th anniversary of the passenger pigeon is observed, lecturer Stanley Temple asked the audience at the March 6 lecture to remember the passenger pigeon and learn from past mistakes.

New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that when fathers come home after military service they must re-establish their parental skills and their relationships with their children.