Category: Research

From the football field to the front lines of war, helmets are the first defense against brain injury. With more research going into materials that prevent kinetic energy from an impact reaching the brain, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe their new carbon nanotube foam will get ahead in the head game.

Cutting weight quickly can be a common practice in amateur wrestling, but local health experts are warning young athletes that it can come with a cost — including a higher risk of injury.

Doug, what is the cause of the frequency of the storms increasing?Doug Caruso:That’s climate change related. This data came from the University of Wisconsin, and calculates the change since 1995 in the frequency of these storms. And then predicts that those increases in frequency are going to continue to rise as the climate warms.

These ghosts, as Justin Vandenbroucke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an IceCube team member put it, are fit to solve two major mysteries in astronomy.

So in a previous study, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed a thin encapsulating layer that protects them long enough to take hold in the gut.

COVID-19 changed the way researchers disseminate research, creating lasting changes in scientific publication process.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances (TCRPS) was created to foster education and research on the field of medical applications of psychedelics, and one of them is specifically studying if remembering the psychedelic-induced hallucinations is a fundamental part of these substances’ therapeutic effects.

Noted: The University of Wisconsin estimates there are about 770 million ash trees in Wisconsin — 765 million trees in wooded rural areas and about 5 million in urban areas.

The cessation of abortion services in Wisconsin — triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — could result in a 20% reduction in abortions throughout the state, according to a recent report from University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.

This realization is not an entirely new one: A 1987 study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that a group of men playing poker with “soggy,” rhinovirus-contaminated cards were not infected, while a group playing with other sick players were.

When it comes to fighting wildfires, every minute matters. This year, a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched a system that can help detect them and alert NASA in just a matter of seconds. 

A pair of studies out of UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health have found that when the Affordable Care Act Navigator program has more funding, more people sign up for health insurance.

UW researcher co-authors book on prison system’s ties to mental health.

Teenagers live and breathe social media, and the negative effects of these platforms can have a strong, long-term impact on teenagers’ mental and physical health. Chris Cascio, an assistant professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with an extensive background in neuroscience, is hoping to learn more about teens’ experiences on social media platforms. “

This news comes just a couple of weeks after researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made the case that Teams (and Slack) third-party apps may have some worrying security flaws. Because their code is rarely analyzed by Teams’ and Slack’s dev teams, the potential for data leaks could be greater than expected.

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“There is clear scientific evidence that diets in high-income countries need to shift away from animal-based foods and towards plant-based foods not only to reduce GHGs (greenhouse gases) to address climate change but also to reduce resource use (e.g., land, water) and pollution,” write the scientists from Maryland’s Towson University and the University of Wisconsin, “but many newspaper journalists are presenting ‘both sides’ and, therefore, covering the issue as an open debate

The fennel plant (Foeniculum vulgare) is cultivated because of its aromatic seeds and delicious stems, as told by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A multipurpose plant, fennel can be grown in various garden types depending on your use for it. Thankfully, the versatile herb is also pet friendly, so you can feel free to let your curious pup check out your plants

The Housing First program costs $2 million to $3 million a year. It has reduced Wisconsin’s spending on Medicaid programs by an estimate $2.1 million a year, and has reduced Milwaukee County’s cost of providing behavioral health care by $715,000 a year, according to a brief by the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

“It’s a measure that tries to capture all of the different election laws that affect access to voting,” David Canon, a political science professor at UW-Madison and the editor-in-chief of the Election Law Journal, said. “As a voter, you don’t like to have to go through a bunch of hoops to be able to vote. You’d like to be able to have it easier to vote rather than harder to vote.”

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison argue that third-party apps rarely have their code reviewed by programmers at Slack and Microsoft. Even those that do, undergo a relatively superficial analysis, in which the reviewers analyze if the app works as intended, if it encrypts data, and run an automated scan that looks for vulnerabilities.

UW’s annual Badger Challenge returned Sunday. The event helps raise money to fight cancer.

ROBERT KRAIG: The climate issue has really advanced as a public issue. I can give you one piece of public polling. UW-Madison, our flagship research university, did a poll last year that showed it was the top concern of Wisconsin voters, and that was not a political poll.

Nathan’s years of research on learning sciences has taught him effective teaching and study techniques.

Agronomy Ph.D student partners with American Family Insurance to study best invasive species management methods.

The main goal of the study is to look at the conditions surrounding an injury. Researchers are looking at the conditions on the field that cause sport-related concussions to occur, according to Daniel Cobian, assistant professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.