There’s some reassuring news for healthy women taking hormone replacement therapy who are concerned about Alzheimer’s disease: University of Wisconsin-Madison research shows no increased risk for the most common type of dementia. But it also didn’t find any benefits to the brain.
In 2016, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University found that curiosity could dramatically change people’s behavior for the better. Among other things, they discovered that posting a trivia question next to an elevator and telling people the answer was in the stairwell could actually get more people to use the stairs!
With five minutes left on the clock, the University of Wisconsin-Madison team needed to pass two tests in order to qualify for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition finals.
There’s some reassuring news for healthy women taking hormone replacement therapy who are concerned about Alzheimer’s disease: University of Wisconsin-Madison research shows no increased risk for the most common type of dementia. But it also didn’t find any benefits to the brain.
There’s some reassuring news for healthy women taking hormone replacement therapy who are concerned about Alzheimer’s disease: University of Wisconsin-Madison research shows no increased risk for the most common type of dementia. But it also didn’t find any benefits to the brain.
Research at the conference also included updates to the associations between hormone therapy and Alzheimer’s risk. Previous studies had suggested that women who start taking hormones in their late 60s and 70s have a higher rate of cognitive decline, a paper out of the University of Wisconsin school of medicine and public health found that risk to be elevated specifically for women with diabetes.
One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities in the state.
“We want to be able to offer very rapid, low-cost confirmatory testing of genetic disorders,” said Dr. Christine Seroogy, a pediatric immunologist and associate professor at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. “Additionally, it could be cost-saving, in that we are diagnosing the disorders early, which saves the families lots of diagnostic testing.”
Neglect, abuse, violence and trauma endured early in life can ripple directly into a child’s molecular structure and distort their DNA, according to a new study this week from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities in the state.
Hormone therapy doesn’t increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, especially in healthy women who take natural estrogen around the age of menopause, according to new UW-Madison research.
Thousands of miles of buried fiberoptic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oregon, reports news.wisc.edu.
Quoted: “The technology keeps getting better and better — and, the most important thing, cheaper,” said Gary Radloff, who retired this year as director of energy policy analysis for the Midwest at the Wisconsin Energy Institute, a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Research conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that girls who grow up in stressful environments are more likely to experience physical and emotional problems, including anxiety, depression and mood disorders.
A new modeling framework from UW-Madison could be used to identify economically viable candidates for bio-produced chemicals.
Thirty-five students from UW-Madison are testing their pod design this week at an international competition in California put on by the company Space-X.
Trauma endured early in life can ripple directly into a child’s molecular structure and distort their DNA, according to a new study this week from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It’s a hallmark of modern apocalypse movies: Someone tries their cellphone, and when they (gasp!) have no reception, they try the internet. That’s when the real horror hits, because the internet isn’t working, and not even memes can save them now. All joking aside, though, climate change does pose a real threat to the internet, according to a new study. The report suggests that underground fiber optic cables that provide internet to heavily populated areas along the West and East Coasts of the U.S. may be underwater within the next 15 years.
Embke is a graduate student at the UW-Madison Trout Lake Station in Boulder Junction. She’s trying to virtually drain the lake of bass and panfish as part of a hypothesis on walleye decline in Northwoods lakes. It’s the first time something like it has ever been tried.
Some of the key internet infrastructure in the U.S. will likely be underwater in as little as 15 years because of rising seas, scientists say.
Parts of the infrastructure that forms the backbone of the Internet — from fiber optic cables to colocation facilities — is at risk of being flooded and knocked offline during the next few decades as a result of climate change-related sea level rise, according to a new study.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Wisconsin’s Amish and Old Order Mennonite, collectively known as Plain sect communities.
When the Internet goes down, life as the modern American knows it grinds to a halt. Gone are the cute kitten photos and the Facebook status updates—but also gone are the signals telling stoplights to change from green to red, and doctors’ access to online patient records.
Critical portions of America’s internet infrastructure, particularly in New York City, Miami, and Seattle, may be submerged and damaged by rising sea levels—possibly within the next 15 years, according to research presented Monday at a meeting of internet researchers.
You probably didn’t give much thought to how exactly you loaded this webpage. Maybe you clicked a link from Twitter or Facebook and presto, this article popped up on your screen. The internet seems magical and intangible sometimes. But the reality is, you rely on physical, concrete objects — like giant data centers and miles of underground cables — to stay connected.
The fiber optic cables that carry internet and are buried along the coastal United States may be threatened by rising sea levels, a new study has found.
For more than a century, the origin of cosmic rays — fragments of atoms that rain down on the Earth at close to the speed of light — had been one of the great mysteries in science, thwarting the best minds in physics.An international team of scientists (including at UW–Madison) reported Thursday that the likely solution arrived at just after 3:54 p.m. Central Time on Sept. 22, in a scene beyond anything special effects wizards in Hollywood could have imagined.
Luke Zoet is an assistant professor of geoscience with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says erosion makes bluffs steeper and more prone to small-or medium-scale landslides.Zoet says the university is using instruments called extensometers to gather data on the movement of bluffs experiencing erosion.
From Vitamin D and human embryonic stem cells to blood thinners and new treatment avenues for patients with Alzheimer’s Disease, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been home to numerous scientific advances since its founding in 1849.
The scientific question eluded researchers around the world for more than a century.
The initial detection by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, and subsequent observations of high energy radiation from the same source by space telescopes and ground-based observatories, indicate such black holes act as the particle accelerators responsible for at least some of those cosmic rays.“The evidence for the observation of the first known source of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays is compelling,” said Francis Halzen, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of physics and the lead scientist for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
Scientists have finally located a source of the most energetic rays. Starting with a single signal—a flash of light in a detector at the South Pole—and combining it with telescope data from a collaboration of over a thousand people, astrophysicists have traced the origin of some of Earth’s cosmic rays to a blazar, a type of galaxy, 4 billion light years away. “We’ve learned that these active galaxies are responsible for accelerating particles and cosmic rays,” says physicist Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Quoted: “It’s exciting, no doubt, to have finally nailed the cosmic accelerator,” says the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Francis Halzen, lead scientist with IceCube. The results are reported today in three papers appearing in Scienceand the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Astronomers said the discovery could provide a long sought clue to one of the enduring mysteries of physics and the cosmos. Where does the rain of high-energy particles from space known as cosmic rays come from?
An international team of scientists led by Halzen and other researchers at UW-Madison identified a blazar — a technical term for a galaxy with a massive spinning black hole in its center — as the first known cosmic source for a neutrino detected September 22, 2017.
Noted: Inmates in private prisons appear to serve 4 to 7 percent additional fractions of their sentences, which amounts to 60 to 90 days for the average inmate, according to a paper released by Anita Mukherjee, Ph.D., an assistant professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business.
“Air conditioning saves lives from heat waves,” Jonathan Patz, who directs the University of Wisconsin’s Global Health Institute, told Earther. “But if the electricity to run air conditioners requires coal-fired power plants, then we have a problem.”
According to new research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, increased use of air conditioners may only be making a bad problem even worse.
Wisconsin youth who are transgender, nonbinary and gender expansive/nonconforming, or TNG, say many doctors aren’t aware of their needs, according to a survey by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Mike Sussman, who ran the Biotechnology Center for over 21 years, will become director of the Genome Center of Wisconsin, which is in the Biotechnology Center.
An international team of astrophysicists will reveal a “breakthrough” discovery Thursday (July 12), and you can watch the announcement live.The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced in a statement that it will host a news conference Thursday at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) to unveil new “multimessenger astrophysics findings” led by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an NSF-managed facility at the South Pole.
Noted: The intersection of creativity and procrastination gathered mainstream buzz in 2016, when the New York Times published an op-ed by Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, author, and Wharton School of Business professor. In the piece “Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate,” Grant posits procrastination as a “virtue for creativity” and shares the research of one of his students, Jihae Shin, now a professor at the Wisconsin School of Business.
That is according to a report prepared for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Susan Paskewitz is the chairwoman of the entomology department at UW-Madison and helped develop the app. She says researchers are collecting data on all types of ticks, but they’re especially interested in nymph data.
Researchers at UW-Madison have developed a new smartphone app to help them understand where ticks are active and how people expose themselves to ticks. The app is being released as Wisconsin faces an ever-increasing number of Lyme disease cases, sparking heightened concern about tick-transmitted diseases.
But that, say scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is killing us, too.It may be more subtle than a heat wave, but the toll air-conditioning takes could have a much deeper, long-term impact.
“Air conditioning saves lives from heat waves,” said Jonathan Patz, a co-author on the study who directs the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Global Health Institute, to Earther. “But if the electricity to run air conditioners requires coal-fired power plants, then we have a problem.”
Noted: Author Ryan J. Owens, J.D., Ph.D., is a political science professor at UW-Madison, a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin School of Law, and the Acting Director of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
One way of tackling this problem is to roll out more air conditioning systems, but according to Professor Jonathan Patz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this means trading one problem for another.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison forecast as many as a thousand additional deaths annually in the Eastern US alone due to elevated levels of air pollution driven by the increased use of fossil fuels to cool the buildings where humans live and work.
Dawn Dudley, scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, also lead author of the study, said the problem with studies of Zika in humans is they rely on symptomatic infections.
Now, a study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a disturbing new revelation: In a simulation of a three-month summer period, air pollution directly related to fossil fuel burning that powers air conditioning accounts for about 1,000 deaths.
There’s an app for everything — even ticks. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia University are studying how and where Wisconsin residents interact with ticks. They created The Tick App with a two-sided purpose — for research and as a resource.
“We’re always interested in how temperatures behave,” says Matthew Lazzara, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the study’s authors. “In Antarctica, we still haven’t learned a lot of the basics.” His team found conditions need to be just so, in the right spot, to brew up the perfect freeze.
After the endangered species list was created and targeted conservation efforts began, eagle populations recovered. Researchers have found that one of the keys to recovery is protecting the nest of breeding pairs of eagles. Their results were published earlier this year in the Journal of Applied Ecology. Ecologist Benjamin Zuckerberg, an author on that study, explains what it means for the future conservation of eagles and endangered raptors.
Dawn Dudley, senior scientist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the lead author of the study called the high rate “alarming.” While Dudly believes the true rate of human miscarriage in Zika-infected pregnancies is somewhat lower than what they found in monkeys, she said it’s also likely higher than the 8 percent figure.
But that, say scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is killing us, too.It may be more subtle than a heat wave, but the toll air-conditioning takes could have a much deeper, long-term impact.In a study published in PLOS Medicine this week, the researchers suggest our AC dependency could kill as many as 1,000 more people every year in the eastern U.S. alone. The trouble, they note, is the burden air-conditioning puts on fossil-fuel burning electricity plants.
As many as 1,000 additional people each year along the Eastern U.S. could die from complications due to higher levels of air pollution from increased air conditioning use, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in a new study published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine.
Noted: Karen Strier knew something was wrong as soon as she entered the patch of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais where she has been studying primates for 35 years. Instead of the usual deafening roar of howler monkeys, some of the most common monkeys in the region, there was an “eerie silence, like when something is wrong,” says the University of Wisconsin–Madison anthropologist. “It was stunning.” The animals had been silenced by the yellow fever virus, which had wiped out most of the local population of 500 howler monkeys.
