The flow pattern of the atmospheric river now battering the west coast is classic. The University of Wisconsin–Madison maintains a terrific Web site that shows the flows in real time, updated every five minutes.
The two scientists arrived at the South Pole on November 1 and are part of a team of researchers from UW-Madison working at IceCube all year long. Associate Director of the program Albrecht Karle says the goal of IceCube is to, “Look for extremely energetic neutrinos which appear in energetic processes in the Universe.”
Recently, a study from researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison looked at how various U.S. news outlets unintentionally used tweets from the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed organization accused of meddling in the 2016 presidential election, in their reporting.
Dr. Burkard is conducting an international study of patients with metastatic breast cancer in hopes of unlocking the secrets to survival and finding more extreme survivors.
Psychology graduate student hopes study will help understand expressions of others.
Noted: The research of Amaya Atucha, an assistant professor and Gottschalk Chair for cranberry research in the university’s horticulture department, focuses on how cranberry plants are able to withstand subfreezing temperatures during winter, as well as strategies to reduce the impact of frost and winter stress in cranberry plants.
A study of University of Wisconsin Hospital trauma patients found that motorcyclists who don’t wear helmets are twice as likely to suffer neck injuries in crashes compared to those who use helmets.
“To bring people into organics we need mentors, people nearby who can come out to the field and answer questions,” Mesko says. Over the years, the organization has paired 281 mentors and mentees since 2008, and MOSES just wrote a grant to strengthen this program. In another program, OGRAIN with the University of Wisconsin, MOSES is helping develop grain farmer hubs, where one farmer is working with many others nearby in a network.
Proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imported into the United States has the 28-nation European Union considering retaliatory tariffs on $3.5 billion worth of U.S. goods. … Cranberries, which are extensively studied at UW-Madison and ingrained in our state’s history and culture, have also been targeted.
Noted: A team that included University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Chris Wells found last month that at least 116 articles from U.S. media outlets included tweets from @TEN_GOP and other Russian-linked accounts, with the tweets usually cited as examples of supposedly ordinary Americans voicing their views. Wells said the tweets found by the Journal Sentinel seemed similar. “It looks very consistent with what we’ve seen in our research so far,” Wells said.
Brad Herrick is Arboretum Ecologist and Research Program Manager at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, where the staff first noticed the destructive handiwork of Asian jumping worms in 2013. He’s been studying them ever since. Though our understanding of these organisms is in the very early stages, we talked about their biology, their impact, and what control tactics are being explored by scientists seeking a solution.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released the County Health Rankings report Wednesday, Wisconsin Public Radio reported . It measures factors that affect public health, such as access to health care, housing and employment.
The rocks were collected on the west Australian coast in 1982. They contained fossils of microorganisms 3.465 billion years old. Techniques revealing the chemistry which supported the microorganisms were developed years later. In late 2017, William Schopf from UCLA and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin revealed details of how the specimens lived. Two of the species appear to have performed a primitive form of photosynthesis, another apparently produced methane gas, and two others appear to have consumed methane and used it to build their cell walls.
Doctors in Wisconsin may soon be able to look at a “weather map” of antibiotic resistance to help choose a drug for a patient’s infection, thanks to a project by UW-Madison pharmacy researchers.
In the study, Doleac and co-author Anita Mukherjee, who is an assistant professor at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studied the effects of increased naloxone access across the country. Doleac and Mukherjee “estimated the effects of naloxone access laws across the 50 states and made comparisons across regions.”
Road America serves as the testing site. The University of Wisconsin-Madison named the facility an autonomous proving ground last year.
Doctors in Wisconsin may soon be able to look at a “weather map” of antibiotic resistance to help choose a drug for a patient’s infection, thanks to a project by UW-Madison pharmacy researchers.
Research from a group of UW-Madison graduate students sheds new light on the potential relationship between gun ownership and mental health.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released the ninth annual County Health Rankings on Wednesday.The study looked at data including tobacco use, access to care, education, housing and transit, and air and water quality.
For the new study, Doleac and her co-author, Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, examined the effects of broadened access to the lifesaving drug across the United States.
cross the country, scientists are watching with dismay as the months tick by without any appointment of a White House science adviser.
Friends. Friends. Don’t build there. “Houses are being built everywhere,” says Volker Radeloff, a professor of forestry at the University of Wisconsin and the lead author of the new paper. “But a lot of them are still built on the outskirts. That is sprawl.”
Motorcyclists who don’t wear helmets are twice as likely to suffer neck injuries in crashes as those who use helmets, according to a study of UW Hospital trauma patients.
Institute for Research on Poverty worked on volume of proposals countering efforts to scale back social safety net.
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.
“Naloxone access may unintentionally increase opioid abuse through two channels: (1) saving the lives of active drug users, who survive to continue abusing opioids, and (2) reducing the risk of death per use, thereby making riskier opioid use more appealing,” the University of Virginia’s Jennifer Doleac and the University of Wisconsin’s Anita Mukherjee write. Because there are more opioid abusers needing to fund their drug habit, theft may also rise.
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.
Row 7, a collaboration between a chef, a plant breeder and a seedsman, aims to sell seeds for vegetables that might not otherwise reach a broad market, reported the New York Times last month. One of its offerings is the Badger Flame, a beetroot of brilliant orange that a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bred to produce a sweet and mild variety his children would enjoy.
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 local researcher will discuss the impacts of climate change on lakes…both small and large… at Nicolet College in Rhinelander this week. The “Our Changing World” presentation will be given by John Lenters, honorary fellow at the UW-Madison Center for Limnology.
f you want to touch a hunk of roughly 4.56-billion-year-old meteorite that predates Earth, view fossilized bones from two mastodons that wandered western Wisconsin during the Ice Age or learn more about the universe, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum is well worth a visit.
In a new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we look at how often, and in what context, Twitter accounts from the Internet Research Agency—a St. Petersburg-based organization directed by individuals with close ties to Vladimir Putin, and subject to Mueller’s scrutiny—successfully made their way from social media into respected journalistic media.
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.
Noted: Resarch from Anita Mukherjee of the Wisconsin School of Business.
Noted: As opioid usage has worsened in the United States, more and more jurisdictions have acted to increase access to naloxone. Not only first responders but also friends, family and even librarianshave started to administer it. These state laws were passed at different times, giving researchers Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee a sort of a natural experiment: They could look at what happened to overdoses in areas that liberalized naloxone access and compare the trends there to places that hadn’t changed their laws.
Excessive use of menthol cough drops might make coughs worse, perhaps because people develop a tolerance to menthol, a UW-Madison study found.
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.
Noted: Kimberlee Burrington of the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison judged the yogurt category with Jean Luc Boutonnier, a food science specialist from the south of France. They found few duds among the entries.
ANTARCTICA (CBS 58) — Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth where the sun doesn’t shine for six months at a time, but it’s staffed by a group of scientists based out of Wisconsin all year long. Meteorologist Justin Thompson-Gee had the opportunity to talk with scientists of a research project called IceCube in Antarctica.
As the verdant hills of Wakanda are secretly enriched with the fictional metal vibranium in “Black Panther,” your average backyard also has hidden superpowers: Its soil can absorb and store a significant amount of carbon from the air, unexpectedly making such green spaces an important asset in the battle against climate change.
Noted: In grasslands near Poyang, the kind and amount of food the cranes consume “may no longer be enough to fuel egg laying” at the levels the birds managed in the past, says James Burnham, a conservation biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His group has documented a worrisome decline in the ratio of juvenile cranes to adults at Poyang between 2010 and 2012.
At UW Health, opioid doses dropped 11 percent at clinics that paid special attention to urine drug testing and other monitoring of patients in 2016, while doses went up 8 percent at other clinics, a recent UW study found.
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.
Ryan Behling, along with his friends and family, are “Bowlin’ for Colons” to support gastrointestinal cancer research at UW-Madison’s Carbone Cancer center.
A group of American psychologists are trying to find how people will respond to smiles with different implicit meanings, either warm or mean.
Noted: Elaborating on the timing of the publication, Katherine A. Magnuson, a poverty researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an editor of the double-issue journal, told Colorlines, “We felt it was important to bring together a set of fresh ideas that would engage with what we have learned about anti-poverty policies of the past in order to generate positive and innovative solutions.”
In a recent study, two UW-Madison researchers conducted an experiment having subjects play a virtual reality version of the arcade game Pong. Wearing an Oculus Rift headset, the participants were tasked with whacking a virtual ball with a virtual paddle.
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.
Noted: Their new goal will be no small feat. They are working to create the endowment at UW Health for transplant research, with the help of a $500,000 donation. UW-Madison donors John and Tashia Morgridge will give $500,000 to create an endowment in Tony’s name, but to get the money the Arenas family must match that donation in five years.
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.
