Certain linguistic manners can be used to help identify deception in business, experimental research has concluded. The use of complex and long-winded language and even swearing, could point to dishonesty by the person across the negotiating table.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have carried out an experiment in which human stem cells were used to help rats engineered to model amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known Lou Gehrig?s disease.
Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have reprogrammed cells from people with Down syndrome and used them to seek greater understanding of what goes wrong in the disorder.
Is it to naive to think that we as human beings can change the world and make it a better place to live? Have we as modern people lost hope and given up faith in the ability to change?
It?s not easy being the Dalai Lama. Not only are you handpicked for the job at age 2, with no real choice to become a firefighter, artist or cowboy, but you spend much of the rest of your life ? at least, this reincarnation ? answering the unanswerable.
Can people be taught to act more altruistically? Newly published research, measuring both brain activity and behavior, suggests the answer just may be yes.
Two thousand years after the Kizilburun shipwreck, excavating archaeologists have figured out exactly where it came from, where it was headed, and why. Sometime between 100 B.C.E and 25 B.C.E., a wooden ship carrying almost 60 tonnes of stone foundered in Aegean waters just off the coast of Turkey. It went down bearing its entire cargo, including eight massive drum-shaped blocks of white marble. Those blocks fit together to form part of a tapering column that likely stood more than 11 meters tall, plus a square uppermost piece: a Doric column.
Helen Weng, like thousands of other Madison residents, is reaching the end of that long crawl toward a Ph.D. Unlike many of the University of Wisconsin?s underpaid grad students, Weng already has had a taste of the limelight that is usually reserved for full-fledged professors.
Brain cells have been grown from skin cells of adults with Down?s syndrome in research that could shed new light on the condition.
If you?re kind of a jerk, but at least concerned about your jerk-ness, take heart: researchers say they?ve shown it?s possible to increase compassion in adults. The University of Wisconsin-Madison actually has a whole department dedicated to this kind of thing, the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, and researchers there set up an experiment recently to see if they could get a group of people to be more excellent to each other.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is seeking to keep information about research from the public until it is published or patented, arguing that a research exemption to the state?s open-records law would allow the university to remain on equal footing with its competitors, according to the Journal-Sentinel, a Milwaukee newspaper.
An elementary school principal has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible.
Madison ? The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state?s open records law ? potentially through language slipped into the state budget ? to keep some research information from the public until it is published or patented.
Adult kids? relationships with their parents can be complicated, to say the least. And according to a new study out of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a father?s divorce and remarriage can make those relationships even more complex.
Wisconsin?s Tobacco Quit Line has seen a surge of calls since March, when a national campaign called Tips from Former Smokers started.A University of Wisconsin (UW) Madison tobacco researcher calls the campaign ?hard hitting? and personal.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students worked with a UW-Madison student on a mobile app that could reinvent the way people shop for groceries.
A recent MSN Money article noted that the shadow economy is “?estimated to have reached as much as $2 trillion last year, according to a study (.pdf file) co-written by Edgar Feige, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Richard Cebula, a finance professor at Jacksonville University.”
Newly published research has found that Lake Superior?s warming water probably is affecting its most abundant big fish.
New research indicates that Lake Superior?s warming water is probably already affecting its most abundant big fish: the cold water-loving siscowet lake trout. Increasing water temperatures over the last three decades have made conditions more favorable for chinook salmon, walleye and lean lake trout but less favorable for siscowet lake trout.The study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates that fatty siscowets have lost about 20 percent of their historic habitat because of the temperature changes that have already occurred.
The unexpected death of Mahal, the wild-haired young orangutan and star Milwaukee County Zoo attraction, was the result of a severe tapeworm infection, the zoo announced Monday. The finding came after months of work and was the result of DNA sequencing by Tony L. Goldberg, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.
A practiced liar can be extremely difficult to detect, which can have a big impact on negotiations that goes unnoticed until it?s too late. In a recent paper written up at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, the University of Wisconsin?s Lyn M. Van Swol and Michael T. Braun, and Harvard Business School?s Deepak Malhotra took a look at whether there were any telltale language clues that can help detect a liar.
A UW-Madison adjunct engineering professor and a physics professor from Princeton have teamed up to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal defending carbon dioxide, that much maligned greenhouse gas blamed by the vast majority of the world?s climatologists for global warming.
For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from biting winds and subzero temperatures.
MADISON (WKOW) — The Dalai Lama shares his wisdom for making the world a better place. Thousands of people filled in the Overture Center in Madison Wednesday to hear what he had to say.
Fancy seeing the sky in neutrino? Supermassive black holes and enormous stellar explosions may give up their secrets now that neutrinos from space can be detected.
Madison – Ethics education that stresses altruism and compassion, taught from an early age, is one key to addressing the world?s greatest problems, from environmental degradation to the nuclear arms race, the 14th Dalai Lama told a sold-out crowd at Madison?s Overture Center for the Arts on Wednesday.
An experiment buried beneath the ice of the South Pole has for the first time seen the particles called neutrinos originating outside our Solar System.
A UW-Madison adjunct engineering professor and a physics professor from Princeton have teamed up to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal defending carbon dioxide, that much maligned greenhouse gas blamed by the vast majority of the world?s climatologists for global warming.
On his trip to Wisconsin last week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a prime example of the kind of smart investment the federal government should make to confront climate change and support the economy.
As we finalize our preparations to receive His Holiness the Dalai Lama for a dialogue on Global Health and Well-being, an event co-sponsored by the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and the Global Health Institute, both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it is appropriate to reflect on what science is teaching us about well-being. There are four things we can now say that science has taught us about well-being.
On his trip to Wisconsin last week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a prime example of the kind of smart investment the federal government should make to confront climate change and support the economy.
Of all of the world?s chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant. That?s simply not the case. Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity.
Snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere – and especially along the edge of the Snow Belt, as in Wisconsin – has been shrinking.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a grant for researching agriculture and the climate, during a visit to Wisconsin today.
The recent revival in controversies surrounding dying honey bees has brought global attention to issues farmers, beekeepers, politicians and environmental campaigners have long been aware of. Honey bees are in danger. Honey bees play a critical role in pollinating the crops people eat and, as such are both part of the big business of agriculture and a big business in their own right. Bees are important, environmentally and economically.
Jan Rapacz, 84, a brilliant and persistent UW-Madisonimmunogeneticist whose mutant pigs became a standard in heart disease research, died Sunday in Krakow, in his native Poland.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead new research on reducing greenhouse gases emitted from dairy farms.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead new research on reducing greenhouse gases emitted from dairy farms.
FRISCO ? Beneath winter?s deep snows there is a secret world of frozen insects and amphibians in quasi-hibernation, where small mammals scoot about eating bugs and fungi. It?s an ecoogical world that?s mostly invisible but functions as a critical part of larger ecosystems. The subnivium, as scientists have dubbed it, is now at risk from global warming.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced May 7 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, that the USDA has awarded $19.5 million to support research, education and Extension activities associated with climate change and its impact on dairy and beef.
Researchers from UW-Madison will lead a study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture aimed at making the dairy industry greener by finding climate solutions such as the reduction of greenhouse gases.
UW-Madison flu researcher awarded prestigious national science honor: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of pathobiological sciences in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and leading expert on influenza, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Our 10 billion year-old Milky Way galaxy seemingly gets more complicated with each passing observation. UW-MAdison astronomer Ed Churchwell explains the newest findings from his Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Extraordinaire survey and NASA?s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Dear Editor: After seeing PETA?s photos of cats being experimented on at UW-Madison, with steel coils in their heads and other extreme cruelty, I organized a petition to have these experiments stopped. So far it has been signed by people from all over the USA and the world, from Brazil and Australia to Greece and France. I hope others will support this petition and end this totally unacceptable torture of cats. Universities should be places of advancement and non-animal research.
At the forefront has been Dr. Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating the Healthy Mind at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose pioneering research opened up an entire field of study called “contemplative neuroscience.” Dr. Davidson is featured in the upcoming documentary Free Your Mind, which highlights programs working with traumatized military veterans — and also preschool-age children.
Studying sea squirts has revealed the crystal structure of the mineral vaterite — a mystery which had spanned almost a century.
When US scientists introduced stem cells to the damaged brains of live mice, they were surprised by the results: the treated mice scored significantly better on learning and memory tests than their untreated peers.
Even Abbey Thiel admits when she thought of Gilly?s, she thought of its famous frozen custard. Now she, and others, have another reason to like the burgers as well.
A pair of neutrinos detected in Antarctica may be the first of these ghostly particles seen coming from outside the solar system since 1987. If the finding is confirmed, it could lead to a new way of looking at the universe that may solve a number of cosmic puzzles.
Mayor Paul Soglin announced Thursday that Madison will join nine other U.S. cities in a campaign to encourage divestment of city funds from the fossil fuel industry.
In 2014, Wisconsin and the rest of the nation will observe a sad anniversary ? the 100th year of a world without passenger pigeons.
Our series to accompany the 2013 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize asks top science writers about their craft. Today we talk to author, blogger and professor of journalism Deborah Blum
Terrifying, televised news images of fear and suffering scare children, and in the wake of 9/11 led to hundreds of cases of kids who developed post-traumatic stress disorder from seeing too many disturbing scenes on TV news broadcasts. That PTSD epidemic created a conundrum for Joanne Cantor, who studies how media consumption affects human brains.
WASHINGTON: Scientists have for the first time transformed human embryonic stem cells into nerve cells to help mice regain the ability to learn and remember. The study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in US is the first to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain and then heal neurological deficits.
Efforts to advance the University of Wisconsin?s learning and research community will culminate with the opening of a behavioral research space between the Wisconsin School of Business and the School of Human Ecology.
Jim Turk initially put his symptoms down to stress. The self-described “health nut” who was in training to run marathons suddenly found himself unable to jog for more than a couple of minutes before coming to a gasping, staggering halt. His speech began to slur. Turk, then in his early thirties, blamed the combined pressures of juggling a full-time job, studying for a masters degree and his parenting responsibilities. When he collapsed in the middle of a baseball field one sunny afternoon in 2008 while coaching his son?s team, he realised it was time to seek help.
Scientists have successfully transplanted human stem cells into brain-damaged mice and helped them recover their memory and learning skills.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, recently successful in planting stem cells into monkeys? brains, has now successfully created nerve cells that could transform into brain cells and repair learning and memory in damaged laboratory mice.
Smithsonian Magazine blogger Megan Gambino explores the often imperceptible boundary between art and science with photos from the 2013 UW-Madison Cool Science Image contest and thoughts from judges, faculty members Steve Ackerman and Anna Skop and staff member Terry Devitt.
The University of Wisconsin- Madison reports a study conducted there is the first to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain and then heal neurological deficits.
