Noted: 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.
Scientists at the UW Department of Pathology and Medicine, along with the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, teamed up with six other primate research centers across the U.S. to collaborate data on how the Zika virus affects pregnancy.
Several hurricanes appear to be moving more slowly, according to new research. This means they are spending increased time over land. This means more local rainfall and dangerous flooding.According to James Kossin, who works at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Center for Weather and Climate (University of Wisconsin–Madison), the speed at which hurricanes track along a paths is slower.
Ophelia Venturelli, a professor of of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her colleagues have been trying to find ways to disentangle the complex relationships between bacteria by investigating how they interact.
A recent study lists South Carolina among a growing number of states where white deaths outpace births. Discrepancies aren’t unusual, and can be based on labeling. The Applied Population Lab study, done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, deals specifically with “non-Hispanic whites.” The state data lists births by mother’s race alone, and only as “white.”
A 2018 report by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s LaFollette School of Public Affairs found that absent significant investments by the state, such an evaluation would be very difficult.
Noted: The work on McDermott, led by researchers from the University of Wisconsin and UW-Stevens Point and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is looking at such questions.
Noted: The mosquitoes were gathered and tested by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Entomology.
A team of researchers from Florida International University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Miami, the Syrian Centre for Tobacco Studies, and the University of Pittsburgh selected 279 posts from 11,517 posts tagged hookah or shisha within a four-day period.
Luke Odell is a PhD student researching tornado dynamics at UW-Madison. He pinpointed Montana days in advance based on detailed analysis, during what was otherwise a quiet weather pattern.
In a partnership with UW-Madison’s transportation engineering department, testing has already started for a new technology that would show roadway notifications on the driver’s dashboard.
Noted: Once indoors, I contacted Stanley Temple, the famed UW-Madison ornithologist, for his insights into nesting robins. Temple suggested a better idea: “Let’s discuss how birds defend their nests,” he said. “It’s something I’ve researched and written about.”
“The restlessness expressed today is pretty astonishing,” said Bradley Singer, a geology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the lead author of the study, referring to the rising ground. But “we do not believe that this current astonishing state of unrest is something new.”
Noted: The University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison is taking things further. Press releases about animal research at other universities usually skate over sensitive information, but UW’s describe injecting monkeys with Ebola virus and performing heart surgery on pigs, for example, and its web pages detail its animal research program. UW also posts its USDA inspection reports online, even after the agency began scrubbing them from its own website in a controversial move last year.
To mark Wisconsin Cheese Day, Gov. Scott Walker had a big announcement in Madison that will help dairy research.
Quoted: Chelsea Nestel, a PhD student specializing in cartography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks of modern map-making in similar terms.
Noted: To determine what that “something” was, Serido and her research partner, professor Soyeon Shim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, continued to study the same subjects as they advanced through their 20s.
A professor from electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found an ultra-thin stealth sheet which can hide objects with your warm including human bodies or from infrared light or cameras.
News of the Nassar case prompted leaders at the University of Wisconsin to launch a wide review of their own practices, including safety measures guiding team doctors. Officials declined to share details, saying the study has yet to wrap up.
Metamaterials that cloak people and objects from radar, visible light or infrared are usually thick and heavy, but now engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed an ultrathin, lightweight sheet that absorbs heat signatures and can even present false ones.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin, a CRISPR antibiotic is being developed to selectively target super-resistant bugs. In the UK, researchers used CRISR gene editing to eliminate malaria in new mosquito strains. And last year Chinese scientists corrected lethal mutations in 3 human embryos.
If there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done, help may be at hand — the days are actually getting longer. For hundreds of millions of years days have been growing longer and if you could travel back in time 1.4 billion years, a day on Earth would be just over 18 hours. That is largely because the moon was a lot closer to Earth and changed the planet’s spin on its axis.
Stem cell pioneer and onetime UW–Madison scientist James “Jamie” Thomson changed history by deriving the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998.
As the summer solstice draws closer, Stephen Meyers has been welcoming the few extra minutes of sunlight each day that light up his walk home. He knows that after the year’s longest stretch of sunlight on June 21, the days will get shorter as the seasons shift and winter approaches.
It’s made out of bendable silicon and can hide about 94% of the infrared light it encounters, according to the study, which was authored by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Oregon School District will have three longer weekend breaks next school year after a UW-Madison study in the district showed time off curbs the spread of flu.
Quoted: Paul Mitchell, professor of agricultural and applied economics, extension state specialist and director of the Renk AgriBusiness Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, agreed. This research “doesn’t talk about the social adjustments at all. Farmers don’t care about variability of yields, they care about the variability of income. Crop insurance is already heavily subsidized, and there are mechanisms in place to mitigate the financial impacts. If yields go down, fine, we’ll plant more corn.”
In partnership with Public Health Madison and Dane County, the city of Madison, Dane County and the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, the Clean Lakes Alliance has provided data for other local sustainability efforts as well.
There’s a reason for renewed interest in the field, not only at UW but around the country: CRISPR, a gene-editing tool discovered in 2012. The “molecular scissor” allows researchers to remove genes that can cause immune rejection or transmit potentially dangerous viruses from animals.
Noted: According to a Wisconsin School of Business study, people who learn how to use credit cards early in life are less likely to have “a serious default in the future” and more likely to have a high credit score.
Noted: Lewis Friedland, professor of journalism and mass communication and the principal investigator on the project, told me in an interview that the effort began years back when he and other journalism faculty started studying links between media changes and political contention, which escalated with the 2011 fight over labor rights for public employees.
Named for late Milwaukee attorney James Shaw, the Shaw Scientist Award award is given to a scientist rather than a specific research project. Ari Rosenberg is one of the 2018 recipients. He’s an assistant professor for the department of neuroscience at UW-Madison, and his current research is dealing with the neurological basis for autism. With a PhD in computational neuroscience, Rosenberg says his approach to studying autism is a bit different from most other labs.
Noted: Another study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers indicates this may be especially true in Wisconsin, where nearly three out of four gun deaths are suicides. Compared to the national rate of 60 percent, this number is above-average.
Kelly-Van Domelen entered the crystal growing and the art design contest for the UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition in 2017 and won. She was then asked to be part of a team to develop crystal experiments to grow aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Studies of bees, climate change and Amish children are among the eight projects out of 70 receiving grants from one of UW-Madison’s largest endowments.
A new study by NOAA’s James Kossin takes a look at one portion of it—whether hurricanes are moving more slowly than they did in the past. (Does not mention UW–Madison but links to his SSEC page.)
The study was conducted using various types of diets. The goal is to figure out which diet for specific cows will produce the lowest impact on the environment.
A study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that heavy rain and manure levels have been causing more algae blooms.
Days on Earth lasted just 18 hours a million years ago and have been getting longer over the course of time thanks, in part, to the influence of the moon, researchers say.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new study shows that Wisconsin’s poverty rate increased in 2016 and children were especially impacted despite the state’s job growth during that span.
Noted: Timothy Smeeding, a UW-Madison professor who led the study, said the findings reflect that while more Wisconsinites are working, their earnings may not be increasing as quickly as costs such as housing, health and child care.
The Walsh family continues to raise money for vision research at UW-Madison, including work by researcher David Gamm.
The UW Madison Obesity Prevention Initiative developed Wisconsin’s first obesity map broken down by zip code rather than by county.
The results of a study released Friday shows that Wisconsin’s poverty rate increased in 2016 and children were especially impacted despite the state’s job growth during that span.
If you’ve ever felt like there just aren’t enough hours in the day just be glad that you didn’t live on Earth 1.4 billion years ago. A new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Madison reveals that ancient Earth had much shorter days, and the 24-hour days that we experience in modern times come courtesy of the Moon.
Three sites—Colorado State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of California, Davis—plan to inoculate 800 middle-aged dogs for Johnston’s new study. For several years afterward each dog will each receive a booster dose and a physical exam.
t’s not just you – the days really are getting longer. More than a billion years ago, the moon used to be about 40,000 kilometres closer, which made Earth spin faster. Back then, the days were less than 19 hours long. (Paywall)
As the Earth’s rotation gradually winds down, the moon moves further away. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Stephen Meyers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Alberto Malinverno at Columbia University in New York calculate that over the past 1.4bn years the moon has drifted about 44,000km from Earth to a distance of 384,400km
James Kossin, a scientist at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information in Madison, Wisconsin, says Harvey’s slow pace may be symptomatic of a troubling larger trend. His new paper, published today in Nature, provides evidence showing that the speed at which hurricanes move across the planet, a phenomenon known as translation speed, is slowing.
Two researchers at UW-Madison have been selected as recipients of the 2018 Shaw Scientist Awards, each getting $200,000 in seed funding to continue their innovative research work.
A new study by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist based at UW-Madison has found that over the past seven decades, tropical cyclones have slowed down near coastlines around the world.
As the moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out, explained Professor Stephen Meyers, professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“As the moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out,” explained Professor Stephen Meyers, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“As the moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out,” said Stephen Meyers, co-author of the study and a geoscience professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The study author of geoscience Stephen Meyers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explained the relation between Earth’s spin and the location of Moon as that of a spinning figure skater and his arms. The way skater slows down his spinning speed by stretching his arms out, the spinning speed of Earth is slowing down as the moon is distancing itself from the planet.
Using a new statistical method called astrochronology, astronomers peered into Earth’s deep geologic past and reconstructed the planet’s history. This work revealed that, just 1.4 billion years ago, the moon was significantly closer to Earth, which made the planet spin faster. As a result, a day on Earth lasted just over 18 hours back then, according to a statement from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
forgets memory cardResearchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have worked out that around 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted 18 hours. “This is at least in part because the Moon was closer and changed the way the Earth spun around its axis,” the Daily Mirror reports.
An athletic injury researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is teaching an undergraduate summer course that he says is the first of its kind in the country: An overview of athlete monitoring technology.
Where you live in Wisconsin affects how much you weight, according to a new UW study. Dr. Vincent Cryns, an endocrinologist with the UW, led the study and talks about the results.
Past estimates have put the state’s obesity level at nearly 31 percent, but a new study associated with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health puts obesity 10 percentage points higher. And researchers have zeroed in on what parts of the state are the heaviest.
