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.
The tick in your nose could be a new species. ?When you first realize you have a tick up your nose, it takes a lot of willpower not to claw your face off,” veterinary epidemiologist Tony Goldberg said in a statement.
Quick, name one of the oldest?if not the oldest?university tech transfer institutions in the country. If your brain automatically took you to a spot in New England or sunny California, think again. It?s the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, which was founded nearly 90 years ago in 1925.
Noted: #6. The First Neutrinos from Outside the Solar System. For the first time this year astronomers caught neutrinos originating in distant galaxies, an advance that heralds the start of a new era in astronomy?the era of seeing with particles, not just light.
UW-Madison graduate student Alper Sarikaya says he didn?t have much textile experience going into a class he took this semester about wearable computing. But that didn?t stop Sarikaya, who wanted to gain real world prototyping experience and learn how to integrate a computer and clothing: ?I wanted to take it so I could understand how these two things can be merged together, done together well.?
From cheerful red handbags to festive green belts, colored accessories are often mandatory for the style-conscious during the holiday season. But what many fashionistas don?t know is that many of these products may be tainted with high levels of lead ? and the brighter and shinier they are, the greater the risk.
To Ken Cameron, vanilla is a lot sexier than its name implies.The worlds leading expert on the biology of vanilla orchids sees the popular spice, not as plain or ordinary, but as a beautifully complex and valuable commodity produced from the worlds largest family of plants.
Teenagers spurning family time and conversation for Candy Crush during the holiday season is nearly as common a sight these days as turkey and baked ham.
“It?s kind of like finding a needle in a haystack.”Jignesh Patel is sitting in a Madison café talking about big data. Between sips of coffee, the University of Wisconsin computer sciences professor uses the familiar expression to explain just what this buzzy tech phrase is all about before launching into a remarkable story about Madison?s connection to its past, present and future.
Scientists have extracted the entire genome of a 130,000-year-old Neanderthal from a single toe bone in a Siberian cave, an accomplishment that far outstrips any previous work on Neanderthal genes.
News of research at UW-Madison showing that living in poverty may slow early brain development is the latest piece in a growing body of evidence that poverty is linked to lower school performance.
The UW-Madison?s A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research conduct(ed) the study in September and October.
An internationally acclaimed stem cell researcher, a cartoonist and a fourth-grader walk into a building. What could sound like the setup to a joke is something else to staffers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery: just another day.
Noted: Three centers were launched in 2007 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and through a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Michigan State University. Housed at the Wisconsin Energy Institute in Madison, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center was the only one of the three not to be tied to an existing federal laboratory.
Poverty may have direct implications for important, early steps in the development of the brain, according to newly published research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Michael Alkire, associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of California, Irvine, was one of the first people involved in the search for neural correlates of consciousness, back in the 1990s. He?s particularly excited now about a study published in August by an international team of researchers based at the University of São Paulo and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Noted: There?s more on this imagery, generated with data collected by NASA satellites on Wednesday, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center. Visit the center?s Web site to see animated views of the cloud bands.
Poverty may have direct implications for important, early steps in the development of the brain, according to newly published research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A UW-Madison investigation of the program over the last four years shows participation in AVID/TOPS is correlated with higher attendance rates and grade-point averages and other measures of academic success.
No two years are the same, and while insects are always around, some stand out as particularly interesting or surprising. Phil Pellitteri, an entomologist and head of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, said that when he assessed this year, he realized that while he exceeded the previous year in number of specimens submitted to the lab, 2013 ?didn?t seem that buggy.?
Madison stem cell company Cellular Dynamics International will work with the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences in North Carolina?s Research Triangle Park in creating tests to see if chemicals and drug candidates will result in toxic side effects.
High school students enrolled in a college readiness program offered by the Madison School District and the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County again showed stronger academic progress last year compared to other students of similar academic standing and demographics, according to a study released Monday by UW-Madison researchers.
The forum will include testimony from a number of experts, including two UW-Madison climate scientists ? Dan Vimont and Galen McKinley ? and other environmental experts, such as Michelle Miller, associate director of the UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, and David Liebel, a UW engineering professor who specializes in storm water systems.
Two not-very-breaking-news-like observations from the hoo-ha over Metro Transit?s decision to allow People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to put a graphic ad on its buses: 1. PETA is not known for its subtlety. 2. Humans are not known for embracing ugly truths.
A treatment being studied at UW-Madison could change the prognosis. Ellie is among nine patients who have taken dopamine, a drug for Parkinson?s disease, to see if it improves their vision.
Two developments in Madison highlight a national debate about prescription painkillers: the formation of the Wisconsin Pain Coalition in October and a U.S. Senate investigation of organizations including UW-Madison?s Pain and Policy Studies Group.
It was about three days after I?d left Africa that the pain in my nose became too severe to ignore. Starting as a dull ache niggling at the edge of my consciousness, it had gradually built in intensity to the point at which I had to stop what I was doing to investigate further.
UW-Madison needs to raise its profile in Washington, D.C., to better compete for federal grant money, officials say.
Gloria Ladson-Billings travels the world, speaking and teaching about racial disparities in education. A professor in curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her books — including the bestseller The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children — are considered part of the canon for teacher educators. Ivy League schools have tried to lure her away, but she has turned down offers from Harvard and Stanford, where she got her Ph.D.
As predicted, PETA?s ongoing campaign against scientific research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison continues, escalating this week with a striking advertisement on 100 Metro buses. The ad calls for an end to UW research aimed at better understanding how the brain processes sound.
UW-Madison is gearing up to be a more influential player in the competition for federal research grant money in Washington, D.C., and Chancellor Rebecca Blank says it?s about time.
Cellular Dynamics International, the company founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, will develop five induced pluripotent stem cell lines from patients with two types of muscular dystrophy.
Pay attention, managers: Group the Johns with the Jennifers. The quality of a team?s work improves if its members share the same initials, suggests a new study from the University of Wisconsin.
Graphic ads depicting animal testing began appearing on Metro Transit buses Monday, a decision the transit agency said it is powerless to stop.
PETA has taken out over 100 new bus ads in Madison to decry the University of Wisconsin?s use of animals in laboratory research.
We?ve recently seen rehabilitative systems in which stroke victims use their thoughts either to move animated images of their paralyzed limbs, or to activate robotic devices that guide their limbs through the desired movements. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, however, have just announced an alternative approach. Their device acts as an intermediary between the brain and a non-responsive hand, receiving signals from the one and transmitting them to the other.
Polar bears aren?t the only species threatened by climate change. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin, has spent the last two decades studying the ways that a warming world will affect human health. In 2007, he shared the Nobel Prize as a lead author for the United Nations? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Patz, who holds degrees in medicine and public health, crisscrosses the globe to spread the word about the far-reaching impacts of climate change on our health and why better urban planning might be the answer.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank introduced the idea of splitting a Vice Chancellorship into two positions for next year at a University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
Pictures of a lab cat are now being displayed throughout Madison on the sides of city buses. Madison Metro buses rolled out a new Peta ad campaign. The picture shows a cat with a metal bar screwed to its head.
Keen on finding a better way to awaken those dormant connections, he teamed up with Gordon Mitchell at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and his colleagues, who were studying the effects of sleep apnoea ? or interrupted breathing ? in mice.
When Ellie Leden was born, her hair was white as snow. Her eyes were blue but transparent.
Joy Zedler carefully planned the three experimental wetlands at the University of Wisconsin?Madisons Arboretum to be identical: parallel marshes 295 feet long and 15 feet wide, carved by engineers into the green landscape. Zedlers contractors planted all three tracts with similar species to see how the vegetation would absorb and clean water runoff during storms.
MADISON (AP) ? University of Wisconsin students and researchers set out in ?word wagons? nearly 50 years ago to record the ways Americans spoke in various parts of the country.
Federal sequestration and the impact of those budget cuts on the University of Wisconsin will be on the agenda when U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, visits UW-Madison Tuesday for a public conversation hosted by PROFS, a faculty advocacy group.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first adjuvanted vaccine for the prevention of H5N1 influenza, a virus commonly known as avian or bird flu that has been at the center of an international research controversy the past couple years.
A new kind of telescope buried deep beneath the ice of Antarctica has, for the first time, seen a signal from distant, violent events. In doing so, it is beginning to paint a picture of a part of our cosmos that has never been observed before.
UW-Madison researchers dealing with human or animal test subjects will have a new tool for navigating ethical uncertainties.
Paleoanthropologist and science blogger John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the experts on site at the Rising Star Expedition, analyzing fossils, monitoring activity from the Command Center, and helping tell the story from the senior scientists? perspective. For real-time updates follow him on Twitter @JohnHawks.
Buried a mile underneath the ice of Antarctica, the University of Wisconsin?s south pole particle detector, IceCube Neutrino Observatory, has discovered unprecedented amounts of energy beneath the surface and recently has attracted some national media attention in the science community.
“Land grant universities were established to meet the needs of the people, and in Wisconsin that is taken to heart,” said Josh Hyman, director of UW-Madison’s DNA Sequencing Facility. “Helping to identify remains of soldiers and bring comfort and closure for families definitely follow the intent of the Wisconsin Idea.”
The DNA Sequencing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Biotechnology Center expects to play a key role in the final analysis of remains buried with those of German soldiers to determine whether they may belong to U.S. Army Pfc. Lawrence S. Gordon.
For a few brief moments on Thursday afternoon, Wayne Valliere was communing with his ancestors.
From deep below a sheet of Antarctic ice, UW-Madison researchers have identified invisible cosmic objects they think traveled there from black holes or other unexplored places literally galaxies away. They named the 28 extremely high-energy particles ? called neutrinos ? after characters from children?s television.
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has observed 28 neutrinos that traveled millions of light-years through space, crashing into the South Pole ice and emitting a flash of blue light the size of six city blocks.
Since opening a couple years ago, a particle detector in Antarctica has been spotting nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos, in ice or in the atmosphere. Now, however, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory says it has also detected 28 high-energy neutrinos from beyond our solar system.
At the bottom of the world, an observatory embedded in ice and designed to catch bountiful but elusive subatomic particles could give astronomers a brand-new look at the universe.
?This bill reforms government for the 21st century by providing a market-driven solution in helping startups raise the capital they need to grow and create jobs,? said Walker during the bill signing ceremony at University Research Park.
Why does some blue-green algae found in lakes and streams turn toxic? It?s because of a lack of nitrogen, according to a study by researchers at the UW-Madison Sea Grant Institute.
Most nights after coming home from daycare, 2-year-old Brennan?s favorite toy is a $350 iPad.
A second study, reported by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, also is troubling for the passive strategy. UW-Madison research, yet to be published, found that prions ? the infectious, deformed proteins that cause CWD ? can be taken up by plants. The findings suggest crops and garden plants pose a previously unknown risk for exposure to CWD among deer.
