MADSION, Wis. — The foundation that manages patents for the University of Wisconsin-Madison has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc., alleging the electronics and software giant infringed on one of its patents.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation sued Apple on Monday, claiming that the gadget giant infringed on one of WARF?s computer technology patents.
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.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, has launched a lawsuit against Apple. WARF?s lawsuit alleges that the iPhone maker infringes on a patent held by the University of Wisconsin – Madison, US Patent No. 5,781,752.
By following 1,500 subjects for 25 years, a landmark study at the University of Wisconsin helped reinvent sleep science and proved that sleep apnea causes more than snoring. Scientists now link the sleep disruption to health risks ranging from high blood pressure and stroke to cardiovascular disease and early death. Is your aging brain a risk too?
trollAnna Bialkowska via FlickrCalled patent trolls or non-practising entities (NPE), companies that make most of their money from licensing patents don?t have the best reputation. WARF is listed as #5.
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.
A University of Wisconsin, Madison physics lab will close on April 5, after a decision from the Department of Energy came down in late January.
STOUGHTON WKOW — A University of Wisconsin, Madison physics lab will close on April 5, after a decision from the Department of Energy came down in late January.
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.
Two University of Wisconsin, Madison scientists have put forward a new hypothesis on why we sleep. During sleep, they say, the brain weakens — not strengthens — the connections among brain cells to allow the brain to reset, and strangely enough, the result is better memory.
Despite this harsh winter, researchers at UW-Madison are predicting changes for the future.
Do less snow, warmer temperatures and more rain in winter sound pretty good right now?That?s the possible weather scenario Wisconsin and the Great Lakes states could see in the latter part of the 21st century, according to researcher Michael Notaro at UW-Madison.
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.
Around 700 people took a much-needed break the cold on Saturday night to at least pretend they were in more tropic climes by attending a luau.
The work of University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medicine Dr. Vince Cryns seems paradoxical at first: he looks for ways to kill cells to save lives.
A group of University of Wisconsin researchers have constructed a way to create sugar chains that can be used as a reliable biofuel source.
An educator instrumental in widening the scope and success of research and graduate programs at UW-Madison is returning to the classroom.
Jadin said the UW-Madison is driving much of the local life sciences sector?s advance. He said the university is No. 4 nationwide in federal research funds.
Groundbreaking local research is providing new insights into being young and transgender.
One bottle in professor Jim Dumesic?s chemical engineering lab stands out from the rest these days.
Doctors at the University of Wisconsin have made a major breakthrough in breast cancer research by identifying how the cancers spread to the brain.
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.)
This week, the White House received a report from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. It offers recommendations on a range of election practices, including how to shorten waiting times, accommodate voters with limited English proficiency, and staff polling places. These conclusions, which may well spark federal and state legislation, would not be possible without research support from political scientists. How did that happen?
Are we in the throes of a “zeitgeist” moment, when world leaders and CEOs embrace the role that mindfulness plays in cultivating health, compassion and happiness?Richard J. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes we are, and traveled to Davos for the 2014 World Economic Forum to help spread his belief that health and happiness are not abstract goals, but skills that can be cultivated with just a few hours of practice.
Wisconsin farmers earned an estimated $3.75 billion last year, their second most profitable ever, thanks in large part to strong dairy and livestock sales, University of Wisconsin economists reported Wednesday.
Wisconsin farmers earned about $3.75 billion in profit last year, coming close to the record $3.8 billion earned in 2011.
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.
The report is a key ingredient to the Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum on Wednesday at UW-Madison.
Scientists are reporting new findings about the relationship between evaporation, precipitation and changing water levels in the Great Lakes.
When Madison Vaccines Inc. (MVI) announced this week it has raised $8 million in financing, it marked the official debut of the UW-Madison spinoff.
The future of energy could be drastically changed by some research going on at UW-Madison. A team of more than eight researchers has discovered a possible breakthrough in biomass fuel.
?Wisconsin has the regrettable distinction of ranking among the worst states in the nation in terms of racial equality,? begins the report by COWS, a nonprofit think tank based at UW-Madison.
Timothy M. Smeeding follows the numbers. He?s an economist and an expert on America?s long battle with poverty.
Researchers have been under fire since People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA submitted an open records request to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. The request led to two investigations by the United States Department of Agriculture and a probe by the National Institutes of Health?s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare. (Audio.)
For University of Wisconsin-Madison animal sciences professor Mark Cook, there?s an important factor to his long-term success: chickens.
Right now, as you are reading these very words, trillions of particles called neutrinos are streaming through your body. Hardly a single atom in your body feels their passage. Hardly one of the trillion neutrinos feels your presence. They are ghosts to you as you are to them. But that doesn?t mean these tiny flecks of matter don?t matter.
The technology was developed in the lab of UW-Madison medical school professor Douglas McNeel and the patents have been licensed from WARF.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say they were “shocked” by the images of last month?s fiery oil train derailment near Casselton picked up by earth observation satellites.
Entrepreneurs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison soon will have a new advocate on campus that should boost the number of ideas that are commercialized, which we think should, in turn, give the state?s economy a boost over time.
Is Sleep The Price We Pay for Learning?Two sleep scientists from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health have introduced a hypothesis that challenges the theory that sleep strengthens brain connections.
Deep inside a dimly lit campus laboratory, a 13-year-old calico cat stares ahead. Her tail twitches back and forth slowly. She appears relaxed but focused. Orange, white and black spots splotch her coat, and her white paws stand out against the charcoal-colored surface.
When Rebecca Blank arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison last summer, she became chancellor of one of the largest academic research universities in the world, but one that has an uneven track record for commercializing that work.
Hazardous materials handlers and firefighters responded to Mentor Biologics in University Research Park Thursday evening where chlorine dioxide had spilled.
New research from scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has linked a protein to the spread of breast cancer to the brain.
Jim Madsen knows what its like to work in the cold, hes spent time researching in Antarctica.
The big knock on the digital humanities is that it has no soul. Sure, you can set computers to crunch data on Shakespeare?s plays, but even the cleverest little algorithm is going to miss the anguish at the end of ?Romeo and Juliet.? A new project at the University of Wisconsin, however, shows the artistic potential in cold statistics.
To Matthew Newcomb, a veteran of UW-Madison?s South Pole-based Ice Cube observatory, it will be a reminder of the warmer times he spent at the bottom of the world.
As scientists get closer to using embryonic stem cells in new treatments for blindness, spinal cord injuries and heart disease, a U.S. legal debate could determine who profits from that research. Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group, wants an appeals court to invalidate a University of Wisconsin-Madison?s patent for stem cells derived from human embryos, saying it?s too similar to earlier research. The Santa Monica, California, group also says the U.S. Supreme Court?s June ruling limiting ownership rights of human genes should apply to stem cells, a potentially lucrative field for medical breakthroughs.
Cows stand patiently in a tent-like chamber at a research farm in western Wisconsin, waiting for their breath to be tested. Outside, corrals have been set up with equipment to measure gas wafting from the ground. A nearby corn field contains tools that allow researchers to assess the effects of manure spread as fertiliser.
Each year, great ideas emerge from Wisconsin?s research labs. Today, we highlight some of the most interesting. (Several are from UW-Madison.)
Noted: The psychologists who did this research were interested in the question of how babies learn about ?nonsolid? objects. ?We had noticed in our lab work before that children are much better at learning names for new solid objects that they didn?t know before,? said Lynn Perry, now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and lead author of the study.
President Obama on Monday named 102 researchers — including two from the University of Wisconsion-Madison — as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on promising science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
The human brain may function like a computer, but humans can get caught up in contextual information, even when the rules are as clear-cut as separating even numbers from odd numbers, according to research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
President Obama on Monday named 102 researchers — including two from the University of Wisconsin-Madison — as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on promising science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
President Obama on Monday named 102 researchers — including two from the University of Wisconsion-Madison — as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on promising science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
