Now that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has had its moment of theatrics in front of the UW Board of Regents, let?s look at some pertinent facts about their campaign against UW-Madison research on sound localization.
To understand whether life exists on Mars and other planets, University of Wisconsin scientists are contextualizing these planets by first researching the origins and evolution of life on Earth.
From UFO sightings to reports of alien activity, scientists have searched for answers to questions about extra-terrestrial life for decades.
A University of Wisconsin engineer who creates innovative health promotion technologies was named to the National Academy of Engineering Tuesday.
Ian Duncan was interviewed on NBC15.
Alzheimer?s disease researchers at the University of Wisconsin identified the first signs of brain function decline, bringing them closer to winning the battle against the disease.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are one step closer to finding a cure for carpal tunnel syndrome through the use of video technology to record and analyze workers? upper body movements.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus David Gustafson was elected into the National Academy of Engineering Thursday along with 68 other new members and 11 foreign associates.Gustafson was inducted into the NAE for his industrial and systems engineering methods to improve care for older patients and people who suffer from lung cancer, severe asthma or drug addiction.
A new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology has some eye-opening findings for tired parents: We?re not actually as sleep deprived as we think. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, looked at parents of kids ages 0 to 18 and evaluated how much sleep they were losing at different stages. It?s no big shock that the younger the kids were, the more sleep deprivation parents experienced.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are helping search for evidence of alien life not by looking into outer space, but by studying some rocks right here on Earth.
In a new paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison archaeologist T. Douglas Price and a Welsh researcher report that studies of prehistoric teeth found in modern Romania and Serbia indicate farming was introduced to Central Europe by colonizers from the Near East.
Lately our fair city has been the recipient of continuous dustings of light snow evoking images of a Brueghel painting. In fact, Thursday was the ninth consecutive day with measurable snow, tying a record set only one other time (Feb. 23-March 3, 2007) in Madison?s history.
The telegram from President John F. Kennedy to University of Wisconsin President Fred Harrington was both eerie and visionary. Eerie because it was delivered Nov. 20, 1963 ? just two days before Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas ? and visionary because it seemed to anticipate the challenges confronting science in its quest to explore the human brain.
The telegram from President John F. Kennedy to University of Wisconsin President Fred Harrington was both eerie and visionary. Eerie because it was delivered Nov. 20, 1963 ? just two days before Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas ? and visionary because it seemed to anticipate the challenges confronting science in its quest to explore the human brain.
Noted: We know that anonymity makes a huge difference in how we interact with each other, says University of Wisconsin-Madison communications professor Dietram Scheufele. People say different things when they are wearing a mask, or at least say it in a different way.
73-year-old Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell was arrested this morning at the University of Wisconsin — after bursting into a board meeting … claiming the school tortures cats in the name of science.
Hollywood actor James Cromwell was arrested Thursday morning after interrupting a University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting to demand an end to experiments on cats at UW-Madison.
As the evil Dr. Arden on the recently wrapped “American Horror Story: Asylum,” James Cromwell committed any number of atrocities, including the double amputation of the asylum?s resident nymphomaniac, Shelley.
Who hasn?t, perhaps on the cusp of a late-night dream, come up with the perfect idea for something new, an invention that would, if not change the world, certainly make you a fortune?
University of Wisconsin faculty addressed the evolving partnership between Madison and China during a panel event at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Wednesday.
Leaders of academic research institutions across the nation urged Congress on Tuesday to take action to head off automatic spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect next month.
When animal researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (85084MF) dodged federal penalties for decapitating a cat named Double Trouble, their troubles weren?t over.
The latest installment in director Michael Apted?s “Up” series opens in Minneapolis later this week. “56 Up” continues what started as a television special looking into the British class system in the mid-1960s.
Enlarge PhotoAfter years of trying, the city?s effort to develop a $7 million to $9 million, world-class agricultural and biology research center on the Southeast Side may be over.
University of Wisconsin and other research institutions alike may have been awarded millions or billions of dollars to fund essentially identical research projects, according to a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University study.
The U.S. Office of Research Integrity recently disciplined a University of Wisconsin researcher for faking his experimental results on two publications, according to a notice from the Federal Register.
Lead exposure may be linked to lower test scores among Wisconsin fourth graders, and exposure rates among African-American and Hispanic children are roughly double those of white children, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A UW-Madison professor emeritus will be featured on Wednesday?s NOVA episode as an international expert on the techno-archaeology of chariots.According to a university press release, experts on the 8 p.m. NOVA episode, ?Building Pharaoh?s Chariot,? tested exact replicas of royal chariots that would have been used by ancient Egyptian royalty.
How can journalists and bloggers avoid some of the pitfalls of communicating science in an online world? Should a website?s comments section be moderated, or removed altogether? How has social media changed the blogosphere? A panel of experts joins Ira Flatow to discuss. Dominique Brossard is lead author of the Science paper, which was titled “Science, New Media and the Public.” She is a professor at the Department of Life Science Communication at the University of Madison – University of Wisconsin in Madison, and she joins us from Madison. Welcome to the program.
Every year, the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge seeks to find the most visually striking scientific art and design. It?s just announced the 2012 winners?and there are some amazing sights to be seen.
A micrograph, or microphotograph, of a sea urchin?s crystalline tooth won first place and people?s choice for photography in the 2012 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropolgy professor who is an often-quoted expert on Neandertal cave men will be featured on the public television series NOVA on Wednesday.John Hawks will talk about how researchers using modern genetics have discovered Neandertals and their society were more advanced — and possibly more like us — than the ancient human cousins are often portrayed in popular culture, according to a news release from the Madison campus.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor won top honors in a national science image contest hosted by the National Science Foundation and Science, a renowned journal, for her picture of magnified sea urchin teeth.
Textile artist Lia Cook?s artistic interests shuttle between the lab and the loom. Cook, who teaches at California College of the Arts, starts with a photograph, often a self-portrait or a picture of herself as a child. She then translates that image onto a fabric piece using a digital Jacquard loom.
Could there be other laughing-related modes of behaviour? Perhaps suggesting the necessity for a broader definition? Researchers professor Cecilia E. Ford, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, and professor Barbara A. Fox, from the University of Colorado-Boulder, US, hint that there may be in their essay ?Multiple practices for constructing laughables?
A University of Wisconsin Cool Science Image Contest seeks to uncover unique photographs of science research to display.
Humans often have access to blood donors in cases of emergency, and now animals have the same luxury because of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary Teaching Animal Blood Bank.
From cramming the night before a big test to creating month-long study plans, students utilize different study tactics to succeed in classes. But a new research study released Jan. 10 found some of students? favorite study tactics are not beneficial, and may even hinder their learning.University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Educational Psychology Mitchell Nathan helped conduct the study, which compiled existing research on study methods into one large research project to find which methods benefit students the most and which have a negative impact.
Lawrence Berger, a University of Wisconsin at Madison associate professor of social work, has found that when the dollar amount of a person?s debt increases by 10 percent, depressive symptoms ? like not being able to shake the blues, feeling lonely, or having trouble eating or sleeping ? increase by 14 percent.
Dear Dr. Gerhart: I was just told I have prediabetes. What are the chances I?m going to get full-blown diabetes?Dear Reader: I?m sorry to hear you have prediabetes, also known as impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance. It is diagnosed in patients with elevated blood sugars that are not yet high enough to be considered diabetes.
The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has reprimanded Rao M. Adibhatla, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for falsifying experimental results in two published papers and three unfunded grant applications, according to a notice in the Federal Register published last week (January 25).
You know the standard model for a university administrator: polite, unflappable, professionally groomed, able to recite policy in long or short form, kind of boring, skilled at disguising true feelings and, of course, intent on keeping a lid on things.
In his book, ?A Short History of Nearly Everything,? author Bill Bryson sheds interesting light on the remarkable nature of human cells.
MADISON, Wisc. ? A satellite image of Michigan taken by NASA is showing the state in its purest winter form.NASA?s photograph was taken on Tuesday, and comes via the CIMSS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It?s an aerial view of Michigan that you may not have seen before.
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
Bird flu researchers said Wednesday that they would end a self-imposed moratorium on controversial experiments to determine how the deadly H5N1 virus might mutate and gain the ability to spread easily among humans.
A year after bird flu scientists agreed to stop research into how only a few mutations in a deadly H5N1 virus could enable it to spread among mammals, they announced Wednesday that research should resume because it?s vital to preparing for a possible pandemic, should such a virus emerge in nature and threaten humans.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Tuesday urging the board to end a UW-Madison animal research project, presenting new allegations the university practiced animal cruelty in the experiments that began in 2008.
A year after bird flu scientists agreed to halt sensitive research, they said Wednesday that the work should resume ? except in the U.S. and other places that haven?t specified conditions under which the studies can be done.
Research on lab-engineered strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus is set to restart a year after the scientists voluntarily paused it to allow for an international public debate on the safest way to proceed.
Controversial research into making bird flu easier to spread in people is to resume after a year-long pause.
Scientists last night ended a voluntary ban on creating mutant forms of bird flu, despite warnings that an accidental release could kill millions of people.
International scientists who last year halted controversial research with the deadly bird flu say they are resuming their work as countries adopt new rules to ensure safety.
Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being invited to participate in a Wisconsin study designed to help soldiers adjust to life after combat.
Experiments with a deadly flu virus, suspended last year after a fierce global debate over safety, will start up again in some laboratories, probably within the next few weeks, scientists say.
Q: What is the difference between a nova and a supernova? A: Through history, sky watchers occasionally ? every few centuries or so ? observe the sudden appearance of a new star, which is visible for a few weeks or months and then disappears. In Latin, these were called “stella nova” or new star.
Experiments done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are angering animal rights advocates. The experiments in question are being preformed on Rhesus monkeys because of their similarities to humans. In these experiments, baby monkeys are separated from their mothers right after birth and later subjected to scary tests to provoke fear and anxiety. The monkeys are then killed and dissected and their brains are studied.
The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, based at the University of Wisconsin – Madison will try to identify those environmental risks. Professors from six Midwestern universities and a U.S. Department of Energy scientist will collaborate on the research.
How do scientists know spring flowers are blooming much earlier than they did years ago? By looking at meticulous records kept by American naturalists Henry David Thoreau and Wisconsin?s own Aldo Leopold.
