Category: Research

Last week, researchers at UW-Madison’s Influenza Research Institute published a study that found cats can contract and transmit SARS-CoV-2 to one another. One senior scientist in the lab is Peter Halfmann, who said the findings can have important implications for both pet owners and animal care providers.

Materials science engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison say it has been assumed that these grain boundaries are very stable, but their new study suggests that might not always be the case.

Inductiv was co-founded by machine-learning professors from Stanford University, the University of Waterloo and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

“Nearly all IPCC pathways to limit warming to 2°C require tens of gigatonnes of CO2 stored per year by mid-century. However, until now we didn’t know if these targets were achievable, given historic data, or how these targets related to subsurface storage requirements,” said Christopher Zahasky, who did the study at Imperial College but who has now moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

You can also get the training used by one of the leading research studies on compassion from the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Lastly, the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion is another great resource, offering workshops and free online sessions.

For many, working from home is a transition but researchers at UW-Madison can only do so much outside the lab. Steven Ackerman, the UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Research, says many employees found ways to keep busy.

Our new research, conducted with colleagues in the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows that how we approach our mediated world matters as well. We found that the way people do and don’t search for news online greatly affects their propensity to believe that a group of secret, malevolent actors are controlling the world. In short, people who avoid following the news because they think they will hear about the important stuff eventually are among the most likely people to think conspiratorially.

Whether it can help fight against COVID-19, a UW-Madison professor says it is too soon to tell. “I am a little bit pessimistic about it because of the difficulty of doing the trials to actually determine definitively that there is a role to be played,” J. Wesley Pike said.

Hongrui Jiang from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, US, is impressed, but notes in a commentary in the same journal that there is still work to be done, notably to reduce the size of the liquid-metal wires and establish the operational lifetime of the artificial retina.

Another neutrino observatory in Antarctica called IceCube that is run by the University of Wisconsin–Madison conducted an investigation on the ANITA findings and it published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal. The researchers said in January that “other explanations for the anomalous signals – possibly involving exotic physics – need to be considered” because the standard model of physics cannot explain these events.

“The structural mimicry of Gu and colleagues’ artificial eye is certainly impressive, but what makes it truly stand out from previously reported devices is that many of its sensory capabilities compare favorably with those of its natural counterpart,” writes Hongrui Jiang, an engineer at the University of Wisconsin Madison, in a perspective in Nature.

The UW-Madison Geography Department is using a mobility map to monitor behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Ball State University found a “significant association between in-person voting and the spread of COVID-19 two to three weeks” after the election. Those findings were published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Hurricanes are getting windier. That’s the sobering conclusion of a study led by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist James Kossin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The paper appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal on Monday.

Study leader Dr Christopher Zahasky, who is now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison but conducted the work at Imperial, said: ‘Nearly all IPCC pathways to limit warming to 2C require tens of gigatons of CO2 stored per year by mid-century.

The devastation caused by hurricanes in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, North Carolina and Houston over the last few years is a direct effect of the climate crisis, which is making tropical storms stronger and wetter, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as CNN reported.

“The main hurdle we have for finding trends is that the data are collected using the best technology at the time,” James Kossin, a NOAA scientist and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, said in a statement. “Every year the data are a bit different than last year, each new satellite has new tools and captures data in different ways, so in the end we have a patchwork quilt of all the satellite data that have been woven together.”

Hurricanes are getting stronger, according to a new study, and climate change may be the cause. The findings come from scientists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information. Around four decades of hurricane satellite images went into the research, according to the University, building upon previous research that found similar storm intensification.

Climate change is making tropical cyclones more intense with stronger maximum sustained winds, according to a new study led by scientists at NOAA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), who analyzed nearly 40 years of enhanced infrared satellite imagery.

If it seems to you that the massive storms rolling in from the ocean every year are causing more and more damage than the years before, you’re not alone. Scientists are noticing the trend, too, and a new study published by researchers at the University of Wisconsin Madison and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lays out the evidence in stark detail.

The study was carried out by a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and led by James Kossin.

Scientists study all the ways hurricanes are likely to change in this century as Earth gets warmer. They also want to know – and this is a hard question to answer – if hurricanes are already being affected by the Earth warming that’s happened thus far. This week, scientists at the University of Wisconsin weighed in with a new analysis of nearly 40 years of satellite imagery of hurricanes. Their results say that – over the past four decades – hurricanes have become more intense and destructive.

In almost every part of the world where tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons) form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger, according to a study of nearly 40 years of satellite images by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM).

Hurricanes are getting windier. That’s the sobering conclusion of a study led by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist James Kossin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The paper appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal on Monday.

“The trend is there and it is real,” says James P. Kossin, a researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and lead author of the study. “There’s this remarkable building of this body of evidence that we’re making these storms more deleterious.

”The research was a collaboration between the NOAA National Center for Environmental Information and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. The team looked at global hurricane data from 1979 to 2017, and used analytical techniques to create a uniform data set with which to identify trends.

Also, the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech has partnered with the US-based FluGen and University of Wisconsin Madison, for producing 300 million doses of CoroFlu, a COVID-19 vaccine which could be in human clinical trials by the fall of 2020.

Additional researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory contributed to the work. Funding came from the US Department of Energy and Stanford University.

NOAA STUDY RAISES CLIMATE QUESTIONS: The intensity of hurricanes and typhoons have increased over the past four decades, according to a new study from the NOAA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, indicating a link between the power of the tropical storms and human-driven climate change. The peer-reviewed study, Pro’s Zack Colman reports, is the first to show tropical cyclones have grown stronger as planetary temperatures have increased.

Years ago, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study showed that autism mothers experience levels of stress comparable to those of combat soldiers — and that’s without a global pandemic.

University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine professor of pathobiological sciences Yoshihiro Kawaoka led the study in which researchers administered to three cats SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a human patient. The following day, the researchers swabbed the nasal passages of the cats and were able to detect the virus in two of the animals, an announcement said. Within three days, they detected the virus in all of the cats.

The novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic can be transmitted between domestic cats even though infected cats may not show any symptoms, according to a research team working in the Japanese capital and Wisconsin.Researchers from the University of Tokyo and University of Wisconsin-Madison published the findings online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine

Professor of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine Yoshihiro Kawaoka led the study, in which researchers administered to three cats SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a human patient. The following day, the researchers swabbed the nasal passages of the cats and were able to detect the virus in two of the animals. Within three days, they detected the virus in all of the cats.

In the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists administered the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, isolated from a human patient to three cats, and monitored the felines in the lab.The researchers, including those from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, swabbed the nasal passages of the cats, and were able to detect the virus in two of the animals.

According to the UW-Madison, Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his team determined this by taking COVID-19 from an infected person and exposing three cats. Within three days, they found coronavirus in all of them. Then, researchers put unexposed cats in each of those cats’ cages.

Jim Kossin, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin, published a study in 2008 indicating the Atlantic hurricane season has grown longer because of the warming of the ocean. And the flurry of May storms over the past decade would only seem to bolster that study’s finding.

One of the fewer than 20 doctors who will be making federal vaccine recommendations is in Madison, and he said it won’t be easy. The lab is like a second home to University of Wisconsin Medical School Associate Dean Jonathan Temte, who has decades of experience developing vaccines for viruses.