Category: Research

Alexandra Witze welcomes a history of IceCube, an ambitious neutrino observatory.

Most people aren’t able to say that they work with data from the South Pole, but Justin Vandenbroucke is the exception.

Sure, fertilizer, irrigation and weed control can make a baseball field look pretty. But there’s a more practical reason for thick, weed-free turf.

Jack Nitschke said going to class, outside can help in dealing with mental health issues.

Feeling especially stressed about your midterms? This is likely because your brain is used to these feelings.

Desde hace dos años la Unión Europea viene denunciando una estafa en la venta del atún: ciertos productores inescrupulosos, para hacerlo ver fresco y apetecible, lo pintan de rojo.

Health care providers can protect babies by testing women of childbearing age for hepatitis C and curing those with the infection, said the research team led by Theresa Watts, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.

An influential legislator wants President Donald Trump’s administration and fellow Republicans to drop the notion of capping overhead costs on grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And yesterday that lawmaker, Representative Tom Cole (R–OK), used his clout as chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that funds NIH to administer a dose of what he hopes will be preventive medicine.

27 News spoke with a member of the Badgerloop team at UW about the innovative project. The team is made up mainly of UW undergraduate engineering student.

Using UW-Madison’s resources, community programs are working to close those opportunity gaps, preparing students for success in college from a young age and supporting teachers.

University of Wisconsin-Madison documents about primate research are public records and should be turned over to Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

A new version of the H7N9 avian influenza virus might be able to cause widespread infection and should be closely monitored, scientists say, although it currently doesn’t spread easily between people.

A new version of the H7N9 avian influenza virus might be able to cause widespread infection and should be closely monitored, scientists say, although it currently doesn’t spread easily between people. Researchers at UW–Madison isolated the virus from a fatal human case and tested it and two genetically modified versions in ferrets, which are susceptible to both human and bird flu viruses.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps a Most Wanted list for flu viruses. The agency evaluates every potentially dangerous strain, and gives them two scores out of 10—one reflecting how likely they are to trigger a pandemic, and another that measures how bad that pandemic would be. At the top of the list, with scores of 6.5 for emergence and 7.5 for impact, is H7N9.

KIINCE—shorthand for Kinetic Immersive Interfaces for Neuromuscular Coordination Enhancement—is a Madison-based corporation that has emerged from the research of Kreg Gruben, associate professor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison department of kinesiology.

A state appeals court says an animal rights group is entitled a University of Wisconsin System animal experimentation oversight committee’s meeting notes.

Marsha Mailick, vice chancellor for research and graduate education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will take a temporary leave of absence beginning Jan. 1, 2018, a spokesperson for the university said Monday.

Now, a group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has shown a second, equally sensible result of the evolutionary pressure called predation: faster growth among the surviving fish.

hildren living in less affluent neighborhoods are less likely to be diagnosed with autism, according to a new study led by the University of Wisconsin.

UW-Madison researchers have set their sights on increasing treatment participation rates and options for those who suffer from opioid addiction after receiving a $3.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Taiwanese electronics company Foxconn announced its intentions to collaborate with Wisconsin cancer researchers, one of many potential national collaborations on cancer treatment and prevention.

In recent years, dairy farmers have become accustomed to cheap, flexible labor, said Jill Lindsey Harrison, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty member who studied the rise in immigrant dairy workers in Wisconsin, a trend that started around 2000.

Republican state lawmakers are once again looking to put restrictions on the use of human fetal tissue in research being done in the state.

Plants producing their own nitrogen would require less fertilizer and reduce environmental pollution, and researchers at UW-Madison will be studying it thanks to a grant from a federal agency.UW-Madison and University of Florida researchers will share a $7 million grant from the Department of Energy to study how some plants partner with bacteria to create usable nitrogen, then transfering this to the bioenergy crop poplar.

At a Wednesday lecture regarding Alzheimer’s disease, medical professionals discussed simple measures individuals can take to prevent or slow the effects of dementia.

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison will be continuing its groundbreaking research for years to come, thanks in part to a multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.

Researchers have discovered that good fathers make for healthier kids – at least among marmosets.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee say they’re excited about this year’s Nobel Prize in physics being awarded Tuesday to two researchers from California, Barry Barish and Kip S. Thorne, and Massachusetts scientist Rainer Weiss. The Milwaukee campus helped the award-winners with a major breakthrough.

A team of computer science researchers at UW-Madison have been awarded over $6 million to work on security for one of the newer components of computering, known as container technology.