Category: Research

The loss of seemingly inconsequential animal species in the marine benthos – the top 6 inches or so of mud and sediment on the floors of the worldââ?¬â?¢s oceans – is giving scientists a new look ahead at the consequences of the steady decline of the worldââ?¬â?¢s biological diversity.

This is one of the first stabs at trying to see what will happen in ocean ecosystems as species go extinct,” says Bradley Cardinale, a University of Wisconsin-Madison postdoctoral fellow in zoology and a co-author of the paper.

MADISON, Wis. — A California referendum that passed last week will pump $3 billion into that state’s stem cell research, while tough federal restrictions imposed by President George W. Bush remain firm

In the southern hemisphere of Uranus, as summer draws to a close, methane storm clouds brew beneath the planet’s thick blue-green haze. New observations from two research teams using the Keck II 10-meter telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii reveal unprecedented cloud behavior, fast winds, and a unique ring system.

Madison, Wis. � The University of Wisconsin-Madison�s Internet Scout Project will use a recent $2.6 million grant to develop a program that will provide community and technical college educators access to the National Science Digital Library.

Meat-eating bipeds who gnaw on baby-back ribs may share everything but the sauce and the napkins with the gnawing style of Tyrannosaurus rex, a UW-Madison undergraduate student has discovered.

The dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences says this academic year will be his last in that post. Elton Aberle, who led the CALS division for the past six years, announced Monday that he will be retiring next fall.

The passage of a California ballot initiative to fund stem-cell research could be harmful to UW-Madison, one of the leading embryonic stem-cell research centers in the country,

Proposition 71, which passed last Tuesday, provides $3 billion for stem-cell research in California. Scientists can use this money for research involving new embryonic stem-cell lines, which is prohibited for projects using federal funding.

Most people know the Church forced Galileo to recant his “blasphemy” after he asserted the Earth rotates around the sun, and that John T. Scopes was convicted in 1925 of teaching evolution in a Tennessee classroom.

We like to think ours is a more enlightened age, where science is unrestrained by hidden agendas and influences. But the current presidential administration has caused people to question their naivet�©.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 – Tuesday’s vote by Californians to spend $3 billion on human embryonic stem cell research could speed progress on the promising but controversial field and make the state the epicenter of such research.

California voters sent a clear message in favor of embryonic stem cell research to Washington on Tuesday, backing a bond measure that supports the controversial science and perhaps triggering a research gold rush to the Golden State.

The eighth annual Arlington Dairy Day will be held at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station next month to provide an opportunity for dairy farmers and others interested in dairy to learn how University of Wisconsin research can help them increase profitability and improve cow health.

This fall, Madison residents have an opportunity to protect their lakes. And they can start in their very own front yards.

Autumn leaf litter washes into street gutters and travels through the storm sewers that lead directly to local lakes. Once there, phosphorus from the leaves fertilizes algae and produces algae blooms that offend the eye and nose, and can be toxic. Local agencies and activists urge Madisonians to manage leaves on their lawns to keep them out of the lakes.

Someday soon the world’s poorest and most hungry may be growing the world’s most sophisticated crops. At the 21st annual World Food Day teleconference, experts discussed the role of agricultural biotechnology in ending world hunger. UW-Madison students, staff and faculty watched the teleconference in the Pyle Center Oct. 15, joining almost one thousand other sites, mainly universities, participating in the event.

hodia Food, now owned by Danisco, has licensed a new bacterial stabilisation system from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, based on technology originally developed to stabilise enzymes.

Comparing the candidates’ positions.

Stem cell research has emerged as yet another divide between George W. Bush and John Kerry.