Category: Research

A-CHESS acts as self-assessment tool, support system for individuals struggling with addiction.

“We’ve seen that many wildfires are caused by people living in close proximity to forests and wildlands,” said study lead author Volker Radeloff, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin.

The study concludes that, while reduced gun ownership decreases the rates of suicides, homicides and accidental gun deaths in a home, it might also improve the mental health of girls specifically.

Research from the University of Wisconsin found that, as a result, more than 7 million acres of habitat have been plowed under for corn and soy across the country.

The University of Wisconsin study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine indicates excessive menthol cough drop use can worsen a cough by causing a ’rebound’ effect.

Easy access to a gun at home is bad for a child’s mental health, according to a new examination at the University of Wisconsin-Madison of a study of American schoolchildren from the 1990s.

A new study from University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers Carly Ziter and Monica Turner finds that spaces like backyards or public parks can store more carbon than urban grasslands or forests.

We don’t know how to break this to you, but your cat probably hates the music you listen to – and that’s true whether you like classical or death metal. Experts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison investigated the idea, and found that cats tend to ‘ignore’ human music, but listen interestedly to music created specially for them.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) invested more than $27 billion in biomedical research through competitive grants during its 2017 fiscal year. Those grants were awarded based on scores assigned by, and conversation between, expert peer reviewers.

Experiment is in planning stages, expected to launch in 2021.

UW-Madison researchers discovered the truce while electronically tracking the movements of red foxes and coyotes, two species that don’t always get along so well when they live in the countryside.

The federal budget proposal for 2019 calls for defunding the College Sea Grant Program for the second year in a row, despite the threat of a bipartisan pushback from lawmakers in the Great Lakes states.

A group of American psychologists are trying to find how people will respond to smiles with different implicit meanings, either warm or mean.

David Drake, UW-Madison professor and extension wildlife specialist, discusses the UW Urban Canid Project, a study on red foxes and coyotes living in urban Madison. The project aims to investigate the way canids are living in the city and how we can coexist with these wild neighbors.

Karen Oberhauser, the new director of the UW-Madison Arboretum and an internationally renowned monarch butterfly researcher, discusses the growth of citizen science projects, why she chose monarchs as a research subject and how the mission of places like the arboretum will evolve.

The UW-Madison Waisman Center is set to begin development on a “full-virus” vaccine for Ebola, an often fatal virus affecting thousands in Africa.

The non-renewable, petroleum version of this (PET), used by many of the largest plastic producers or users, like soda producers Coca-Cola for example, could potentially be replaced with this new renewable plastic if it can be produced in large enough quantities and with economic advantages.

Researchers at UW-Madison are reassuring everyone about the safety of their work on an Ebola virus vaccine.

Esther Ngumbi says scientists should talk about their work in a way the public can understand. She joins Central Time to share why that’s important in an age of misinformation, and how scientists can change their frame of thinking.

A student organization at the University of Wisconsin- Madison called Badgerloop has qualified as one of nine teams in the United States to compete in the international 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Competition.

The goal of the $3 million effort led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka is to develop as many as 1,000 doses of an experimental vaccine that has already been proven to work safely in monkeys.

Digital Intern software has potential to allow doctors to manage more patients, cut down costs.

A team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Princeton University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined avian habitat specialists living on arabica and robusta farms in the Western Ghats to learn which is the most “bird friendly” coffee. They also examined the effects on birds of changing a farm from arabica to robusta production.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health announced recent findings, which include the need for sleep in order to create room for more learning the next day.

Chickadees captured her heart when she was a field technician working for the UW-Madison Zuckerberg lab in well-below-freezing weather.

“I’d be sitting out in a wood lot at 8 degrees, waiting for birds to come by so I could catch and band them for tracking.”

Yesterday, a research group at TU Delft, called QuTech, announced that they’d successfully tested two “spin qubits” on hardware supplied by researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. These qubits involve the interaction of two confined electrons in a silicon chip. Each electron has a property called spin, which sort of turns it into a tiny magnet, with two states: “Up” and “down”. The researchers control the electrons with actual cobalt magnets and microwave pulses. They measure the electron’s spins by watching how nearby electric charges react to the trapped electrons’ movements.

In a paper published today in Nature, researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin–Madison say they were able to program a two-qubit machine based on spin qubits to execute a couple of algorithms that are typically employed to test the effectiveness of quantum machines, including one that could be used for searching a database.

The team of researchers, which also included scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, turned to silicon to suspend single electron qubits whose spin was fixed by the use of microwave energy.

The researchers, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducted a test on 400 healthy people.