When plants are under attack from a very hungry caterpillar, a warning signal flashes through the plant to the other leaves, revealed for the first time in the video above.The video, captured by Masatsugu Toyota at the University of Wisconsin was created using a plant modified to fluoresce in response to calcium signals. The details were published in Science.
“[For] the first time, it’s been shown that glutamate leakage at a wound site triggers a system-wide wound response, and the first time we’ve been able to visualize this process happening ,” says Simon Gilroy, professor of botany at the Gilroy Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and senior author on the paper out today in the journal Science.
Plants have no eyes, no ears, no mouth and no hands. They do not have a brain or a nervous system. Muscles? Forget them. They’re stuck where they started, soaking up the sun and sucking up nutrients from the soil. And yet, when something comes around to eat them, they sense it. And they fight back.How is this possible?“You’ve got to think like a vegetable now,” says Simon Gilroy, a botanist who studies how plants sense and respond to their environments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “It has been a long-term dream to transfer the ability to associate with nitrogen-fixing bacteria from legumes to cereals,” said Jean-Michel Ane, a professor of bacteriology and agronomy at UW-Madison and a co-author of the new study.
Dr. Jim Kossin, NOAA atmospheric scientist at UW-Madison, found that in the past 70 years, hurricanes have slowed 10% over open waters and 16% on the U.S. Coast.
Brain injuries often go undiagnosed because hundreds of brain cells can die, symptoms could still be small enough to go unrecognized.
UW-Madison’s College of Engineering and Foxconn Technology Group aim to open an interdisciplinary institute near the Racine-based manufacturing campus by 2020 with a minimum of 100 researchers, some of whom may be paid by the university.
Wisconsin is practically synonymous with dairy for many people, and the title of “America’s Dairyland” is even enshrined on the state’s license plates. While Wisconsinites may take the prominence of cows for granted, though, it turns out Wisconsin wasn’t always the Dairy State — at one point in history, it might have even been called the Wheat State.
A better understanding of the data and images gathered by the drone-borne instruments could lead to new ways for cranberry growers to detect insects and disease weeks sooner than traditional scouting forays on the ground.
Quoted: “The facility is going to be one of the premiere dairy education and research centers in the nation,” Blank said. “And most importantly, it’s going to be a hub for discovery and innovation for Wisconsin’s dairy industry, working closely with our faculty and our students.”
MADISON, Wis. – Kids and teens spend plenty of time playing video games, but new evidence from the University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests certain games may be good for their brains.
Kids and teens spend plenty of time playing video games, but new evidence from the University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests certain games may be good for their brains.
The UniverCity Alliance project is starting its third year trying to connect local communities to the brainpower of UW Madison. We talk to the director of the program about what they’ve accomplished and what the project will look like in this next year.
Researchers from the National Institute on Aging, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center recently conducted a study, published in Cell Metabolism, to determine the link between fasting and mortality.
Carol Barford, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (THE CONVERSATION) Despite whimsical ads about computing “in the cloud,” the internet lives on the ground. Data centers are built on land, and most of the physical elements of the internet – such as the cables that connect households to internet services and the fiber optic strands carrying data from one city to another – are buried in plastic conduit under the dirt. That system has worked quite well for many years, but there may be less than a decade to adapt it to the changing global climate.
Philip Farrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine the thrill of discovery when more than 10 years of research on the origin of a common genetic disease, cystic fibrosis (CF), results in tracing it to a group of distinct but mysterious Europeans who lived about 5,000 years ago.
The survey from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Hope Lab called Still Hungry and Homeless in College, included responses from 43,000 students at 66 institutions found. Hungry students tend to have declining academic performances.
University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Robert Fettiplace this week will receive a gold medal from the king of Norway, a share of a $1 million science prize, and take his place in the running for a future Nobel Prize.
But one of every five workers in Wisconsin is earning poverty-level wages, black women are three times more likely than white men to work at lower-paying jobs, and Latino employees earn 43 percent less than white employees, based on median pay, according to the analysis by COWS, formerly known as the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
Quoted: Volker Radeloff, a forest ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is one of those voices. He was one of the scientists behind the 2018 study that measured growth of the WUI through a combination of census data and satellite images. He believes that certain fires are inevitable and thinks municipalities should prevent building on risky lots rather than just try to perform damage control afterwards.
As for the apple, the custom was started among Ashkenazi Jews in medieval Europe, when the apple as we know it had become more accessible due to cultivation, said Jordan Rosenblum, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who studies food and Judaism.
In July, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison concluded that up to a thousand people die annually in the eastern US alone due to the elevated fine particulate matter from increased use of fossil fuels to cool buildings. By saving ourselves, we’ll be killing ourselves.
Quoted: Self-driving cars already have LIDAR systems for direct imaging and could conceivably someday also be equipped with SPADs for seeing around corners. “In the near future these [laser-SPAD] sensors will be available in a format that could be handheld,” predicted Andreas Velten, the first author of Raskar’s seminal 2012 paper, who now runs an active-imaging group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
A research team led by Xudong Wang, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of materials science and engineering, has developed a prototype wood floor designed to convert footsteps to electricity.
By using the Hüttenberg Formation, which formed between a billion and half a billion years ago, to study the time between Earth’s change from an anoxic environment (i.e. one lacking oxygen) to a more hospitable environment that heralded the animal kingdom, a team of researchers led by Dr. Huan Cui of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison discovered a sustained, high level of carbon.
“Insects are novel to the American diet, but they should be considered a potentially helpful food that contains important nutrients and fibres that could have benefits to our overall health, including our gut microbiome,” said the study’s lead author, Valerie Stull. She is a researcher at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
New businesses account for nearly all net new job creation. That simple fact, supported by research from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, cuts through all the political rhetoric about building a growing economy, the holy grail of every state or region. Unfortunately, the Milwaukee area has lagged in most measures of entrepreneurial activity in recent years, falling to 33 out of 40 in the most recent rankings from Kauffman, which conducts research and advocates for entrepreneurship.
Foxconn on Monday announced it was giving the University of Wisconsin-Madison $100 million in matching grants as part of a new partnership to invest in engineering and innovation research. Company officials said it was another sign of their investment in and long-term commitment to Wisconsin.
Foxconn, a leading Taiwanese contract manufacturer constructing a huge electronic display assembly plant in Southeastern Wisconsin, announced a $100 million gift to the state’s flagship public university Monday. The company’s gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison will support research and development of new technologies statewide, Foxconn said.
This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the 1988 Yellowstone fires – massive blazes that affected about 1.2 million acres in and around Yellowstone National Park. Their size and severity surprised scientists, managers and the public and received heavy media coverage. Many news reports proclaimed that Yellowstone was destroyed, but nothing was further from the truth.
Foxconn Technology Group on Monday pledged up to $100 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including funding to help establish a new interdisciplinary research facility for the College of Engineering that will collaborate with the company’s planned manufacturing complex in southeast Wisconsin.
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A portion of the $100 million will go toward funding a new interdisciplinary research building located on the UW Engineering campus. UW and Foxconn plan to divide the cost of the new building evenly, and will determine how best to use any remaining funds, Blank told reporters.
Foxconn Technology Group intends to invest $100 million in engineering and innovation research at UW-Madison that will help fund an interdisciplinary research facility for students and faculty to collaborate closely with the company’s Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park near Racine.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
Recent flooding and lake swelling may prove to be a watershed moment for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology.
This week’s devastating floods in Madison — and the potential for more rain this weekend and beyond — underscores the vulnerability that record rainfall may pose on a populous strip of land that rests between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona.
Noted: Rozalyn Anderson, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health, told Business Insider that her work in monkeys also suggests metabolism is at the center of the aging process.
A research trial was initiated in fall 2017 at the UW-Arlington Agricultural Research Station. The research team assessed the impact of delayed grain harvest on the yield and test weight of soft red winter wheat.
Noted: The study authors—Michael Light, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ty Miller, a graduate student at Purdue University—wrote that ramped-up border enforcement had not led to an overall reduction of crime in the U.S. because undocumented immigrants were not responsible for increased crime rates in the first place.
According to Steve Vavrus, senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, a combination of high humidity and a very slow-moving storm is what caused the huge amount of rainfall.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Limnology is experiencing flooding from lake levels on Lake Mendota rising, a blog post from center said.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Lucidity Institute in Hawaii have figured out a more consistent way to create a lucid dreaming state, and it involves the use of drugs normally used to treat Alzheimers.
The neutrino was detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. This observatory is the brainchild of Francis Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who’s known as the “Godfather of IceCube.” He first dreamed of building the South Pole observatory thirty years ago. He talked with Anne Strainchamps about this discovery.
“Russian groups appeared to identify and target nonwhite voters months before the election with benign messages promoting racial identity,” said the author of the report, Young Mie Kim, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Then, on Election Day, the group sent them an ad encouraging them to boycott the presidential election.
For most, the idea of sitting down to take a bite out of a grasshopper or cricket seems unappetizing. But for Valerie J. Stull, PhD, MPH, a post-doctoral research fellow at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the idea is not as ludicrous as some might think.
Dan and Iris Levitis lost two babies to miscarriage. His research explores why it happened.
Farmers in a small area of southern Mexico knew that a variety of corn grown in the area was special. But a group of researchers — including a contingent from the University of Wisconsin-Madison — believe the corn could ultimately transform the way the largest crop in America and the world is grown.
In the 21st century, nearly a century after its founding in the 1930s, the institution balances Wisconsin’s tradition of ecological research with public outreach, citizen-science projects, and hosting visitors, whether they want to learn more about prairie ecosystems or just enjoy the scenery.
A 2008 study conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison of inter-district choice in Colorado found that under the policy, poorer and lower performing districts tend to lose students while wealthier and higher performing districts gain them.
A report this week from Young Mie Kim, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described how a Kremlin-linked group, called the Internet Research Agency, used Facebook’s ad system to identify nonwhite voters. Then the group tried to discourage those people from voting.
The British researchers, working with psychologists from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found that the 3-year-olds categorized as most impulsive became young adults who were prone to tension and anxiety.
A new clinical trial showed that consuming crickets can help support the growth of beneficial gut bacteria and that eating crickets is not only safe at high doses but may also reduce inflammation in the body.The clinical trial, which was carried out in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States, documented for the first time the health effects of eating insects.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have helped discover a corn variety that could reduce the amount of nitrogen fertilizer farmers need to spread.The tropical variety of corn has been grown in Oaxaca, Mexico for thousands of years. Because the area’s soils have little nitrogen, the corn has adapted over the years, developing a system for taking nitrogen out of the air.
“The realisation that these skills are actually trainable with video games is important because they are predictors of emotional well-being and health throughout life, and can be practised anytime–with or without video games,” said lead author Tammi Kral, graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.
According to the researchers, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, empathy is the first step in a sequence that can lead to prosocial behavior, such as helping others in need.
“Insects are novel to the American diet, but they should be considered a potentially helpful food that contains important nutrients and fibers that could have benefits to our overall health, including our gut microbiome,” said the study’s lead author, Valerie Stull. She is a researcher at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Lead author Tammi Kral, graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, said: The realisation that these skills are actually trainable with video games is important because they are predictors of emotional well-being and health throughout life, and can be practised anytime – with or without video games.
An indigenous variety of corn in Mexico fixes nitrogen from the air instead of getting the nitrogen from synthetic fertilizers. Researchers believe cross-breeding this trait into conventional corn varieties could reduce fertilizer use.
A group of researchers led by Dr. Valerie Stull at the University of Wisconsin-Madison set out to see how eating crickets affects gut microbiota and if it functions as an anti-inflammatory. The resulting experiment showed that crickets are, indeed, very good for one’s gut health.
