A UW-Madison professor?s work tracking how muriquis ? a species of monkeys found in the coastal forests of Brazil ? are adapting to population growth is featured in the current issue of Smithsonian magazine.
Scientists believe they have discovered a new reason why we need to sleep – it replenishes a type of brain cell.
It?s hard to dispute that teachers are some of the hardest workers out there. They wake up at the crack of dawn and work long after their students have left for the day. And now, a small new study has identified a possible tool that could help prevent burnout among educators: Mindfulness.
It?s 9 o?clock on a June morning in a muggy tropical forest not far from Brazil?s Atlantic coast and brown howler monkeys have been roaring for an hour. But the muriquis?the largest primates in the Americas after human beings, and the animals that the anthropologist Karen Strier and I have huffed uphill to see?are still curled high in the crooks of trees, waiting for the morning sun to warm them.
The light bulb could get a brand new power source: genetically engineered E. Coli bacteria.The Biobulb project is the brainchild of AnaElise Beckman, Alexandra Cohn and Michael Zaiken, three juniors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The futuristic concept aims to create light from tiny microbes.
The Veterans Administration has given a $1.9 million grant to the UW-Madison integrative medicine program to work with doctors to improve the whole health of America?s veterans.
Hector DeLuca, Rock Mackie and Richard Davidson have the kind of academic credentials admired by their academic colleagues at UW-Madison and far beyond.
Last year?s first managed wolf hunt in Wisconsin history did not increase tolerance toward the animals among people who live in wolf country, a new survey by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers shows.
A leaked early version of a major forthcoming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations-affiliated panel of scientists that is often cited as the world?s top authority on global warming, is grabbing headlines this week. [Includes comment from Jim Kossin, one of the report’s authors and research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.]
Buried deep in the ice below the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, IceCube is the world?s largest and most remote neutrino observatory.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a nearly $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new cybersecurity solutions to ensure the protection of the nation?s vast digital infrastructure. UW-Madison will collaborate with research teams at four other universities through this five-year award, which is entitled ?Rethinking Security in the Era of Cloud Computing.?
A new study by University of Wisconsin researchers shows that children who are exposed to lead are three times more likely to be suspended from school in fourth grade than those who are not exposed.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, congratulated the University of Wisconsin-Madison yesterday on receiving a nearly $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation NSF to develop new cybersecurity solutions to ensure the protection of the nation?s vast digital infrastructure.
Bacteria is experiencing a boon as of late. Just recently, microorganisms have been used to make a better sunscreen. Another bright idea comes from scientists who are using bacteria as the key ingredient in a biological light bulb that requires no electricity. Quoted: Biochemistry major Michael Zaiken.
Scientists have long known that children with high levels of toxic lead in their bloodstream are more likely than others to behave impulsively, have shorter attention spans and lower IQs and do poorly in school.
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin met with medical researchers today at the University of Wisconsin?s Milwaukee and Madison campuses.
Kayakers venturing out on a thrilling but potentially dangerous paddle to the Apostle Islands sea caves on Lake Superior can now check conditions from shore on a kiosk developed by UW-Madison researchers with the Sea Grant Institute.
Vision simply isn?t as objective a view of reality as we think it is, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Just saying a word can alter that reality.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are convinced the tests of the future will look like Crystals of Kaydor, a role-playing video game about aliens.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes (NHLBI), in collaboration with the FDA, has awarded the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention a $368,000 grant to study the use of menthol cigarettes at UW-Madison.
Tammy Baldwin readily admits she has a soft spot for academic researchers and the federal dollars that often help to support them. Her grandfather was a UW-Madison biochemist who worked at the Institute for Enzyme Research for decades.
The serene peacefulness of Crystal Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin is somewhat misleading. That?s because just below the water?s surface a war is being waged against an invasive fish species foreign to the state called Rainbow Smelt.
First, two teams of virologists created more dangerous versions of the deadly H5N1 flu. Now they want to give the H7N9 virus, which has already sickened at least 134 people and killed 43 people in Asia, a few new capabilities: drug resistance, faster transmission between people and the ability to sneak past the immune system.
Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Centre, in Rotterdam, separately found ways to make a strain of bird flu called H5N1 more contagious.
Fake web traffic has long plagued the online publishing world, but Dr. Paul Barford, computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin, is claiming the problem might be worse than suspected. And it?s costing some of the top online advertisers millions in wasted ad impressions.
Aeromedical evacuation is one of the world?s riskiest professions and accident rates are going up. But, the UW College of Engineering Flight Simulation Lab is working to reverse that trend.
People who suffer sudden cardiac arrest at a fitness center are more likely to survive than those stricken at other indoor locations such as restaurants or malls, according to a new study by Dr. Richard Page, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
More than 45,000 dogs and 68,000 monkeys have been killed in Madison at UW-Madison and Covance over the past 10 years, according to reports submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture by each facility. Many of these animals have endured multiple experimental procedures and profound environmental and social deprivation.
Gov. Scott Walker announced plans Wednesday for new University of Wisconsin buildings for dairy and meat science, according to a release.
The nations largest dairy research center is getting a big makeover.
World-renowned flu researchers, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Yoshihiro Kawaoka, are proposing the same kinds of experiments on China?s deadly bird flu virus that scientists voluntarily agreed to halt last year on a different, potentially deadly strain of bird flu.
Forget No. 2 pencils, or even the new computer-based common-core exams that have schools across the country scrambling. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are convinced the tests of the future will look like Crystals of Kaydor, a role-playing video game about aliens. (Registration required.)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is doing research that could help the Food and Drug Administration decide whether to ban menthol cigarettes.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention has received a $368,000 grant to study the use of menthol cigarettes.
The Titan Arum plant began blooming inside UW-Madison?s D.C. Smith Greenhouse around noon on Thursday, August 1 and should reach full bloom sometime Thursday evening.
It?s a peaceful morning on Trout Bog, just outside Boulder Junction in Vilas County. And though the sound of oars splashing into the still water provides the ambience of a typical Northwoods boat ride, the voyage Ben Crary and Matt Bodin are on is anything but average.
Researchers who used a thick plastic curtain to divide a northern Wisconsin lake in half are wrapping up their 30-year study on air and water pollution.
Here?s a good reason to help your coworkers with an upcoming project or presentation: Altruists in the office are more likely to be committed to their work and are less likely to quit their jobs, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But beyond all that, researchers found perhaps the biggest benefit of office altruism: Those who help others are happier at work than those who don?t prioritize helping others.
Column by Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
If a paperback on your summer reading list was published anonymously, you?d probably notice. But if this article lacked a byline, or tonight?s episode of Wilfred didn?t credit a writer, you might not bat an eyelash.
Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler don?t have the typical academic offices or lives. The husband-and-wife UW-Madison education professors have built successful careers around the study of video games in promoting learning.
There?s a new tick in Wisconsin, and it?s a nasty little bugger. “These are more aggressive than our normal ticks,” said UW Madison expert Susan Paskewitz.
A.J. Bussan, a potato and vegetable specialist with University of Wisconsin Extension, says central Wisconsin farmers are doing a better job at growing profitable crops while at the same time making less of a demand on local water supplies.
SatCam is one of several smartphone apps which hope to take user submitted data to improve weather research and forecasting. However, it?s the only one so far to give something directly back to the user in return.
Because I?m such an unabashed weather geek, I check in most days with the awesome blog of the [UW-Madison’s] Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. This morning was no exception, and what I found was a short post about a possible midget typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean.
Wrap your head around this: Expensive sports helmets with lots of padding may not offer greater protection, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. When researchers recorded the age, price, and brand of 2,000 high school athletes? football helmets, it appeared that none of those factors had any impact on who got concussions and who didn?t.
An aggressive tick that can trigger a disease causing fever and fatigue has an increased presence in Wisconsin, bug experts say.
An aggressive tick that can cause a disease marked by fever, fatigue and possibly an allergy to meat is showing up this year in Wisconsin like never before, a UW-Madison entomologist said Monday.
“If they get a signal….or a little bit of movement then they may actually aggressively hunt you,” said Professor Susan Paskewitz, talking about the Lone Star tick.
There?s a new, potentially troublesome tick to track in Wisconsin. It?s not a deer tick or a wood tick, and this lone star tick has nothing to do with Texas. ?Lone star actually reflects the little white spot on the back of the adult female,? said University of Wisconsin-Madison entomology professor Susan Paskewitz.
An archaeology trip to the ancient city of Troy led by UW-Madison researchers has been postponed until next summer because of an unexpected move last week by the Turkish government to suspend permits for archaeology work this summer.
A new UW study has confirmed a link between Alzheimer?s disease and diabetes.
America?s research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China, with millions of hacking attempts weekly ? including thousands a day at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.
More than 50 years ago, (now-emeritus UW-Madison botany professor) Hugh Iltis crouched high in the Peruvian Andes to search for a dropped camera filter and found a patch of tiny pinkish violets no bigger than a penny growing in a spot so remote it?s possible no one had seen that type of flower before or since.
When scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources, and other agencies lowered a plastic curtain into a pristine hourglass-shaped lake in the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest in 1984, it drew national attention. The barrier blocked water and effectively split Little Rock Lake into two basins.
In a recent study, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers asked more than 1,000 people to read a blog post about nanosilver technology. Half of the participants were exposed to civilized reader comments on the post, and the other half were subjected to profanity-laden screeds and putdowns.
The new strain of H7N9 bird flu virus has traits that potentially could spark a worldwide flu outbreak, according to a new laboratory study [conducted by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin?Madison] involving virus that was found in humans, then given to animals.
A new bird flu virus responsible for at least 37 deaths in China since March ? more than a fourth of those it infected ? has the potential to spark a global outbreak, a team of researchers led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo concludes in findings published Wednesday.
A new kind of bird flu that has killed 43 people in China shows potential in the lab for sparking a global outbreak, according to a study by UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Researchers tested the ability of the H7N9 virus to infect several mammal species including ferrets and monkeys. They found that as well as readily invading the lungs, it could be spread like seasonal flu by coughing and sneezing.
