Earth and its parent galaxy are living in a cosmic desert — a region of space largely devoid of other galaxies, stars and planets, according to a new study. The new study shows this model of the KBC void is not ruled out based on additional observational data, Amy Barger, an observational cosmologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was involved with both studies, said in a statement from the university.
A new UW-Madison policy allows researchers and instructors to use drones on campus for research or educational purposes.
If you’ve ever traveled between Portage and Madison on Highway 51, you’ve driven past it – the flagship research facility for the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, the Arlington Agricultural Research Station will play host to a crowd likely to number in the hundreds. It’s the site of the 40th annual Moo-Day Brunch, Columbia County’s traditional salute to the dairy industry.
“It’s always exciting to be here,” said Schroeder as she watched members of her team check the measurements on the westernmost pit. “This is the third consecutive summer on this project to discover and explore what daily life at Aztalan was like 900 to 1,000 years ago.”
If federal funding for indirect costs tied to research were cut by Congress, as proposed by President Donald Trump, the University of Wisconsin-Madison could lose tens of millions of dollars annually and be forced to narrow the breadth of its research enterprise, Chancellor Rebecca Blank warned in a blog post Tuesday.
LAKE MILLS — Three white tents offered tepid relief to several UW-Madison anthropology students as temperatures approached 90 degrees on a cloudless Tuesday afternoon.
A UW-Madison professor says it’s the golden age for podcasts, but he’s worried some of those podcasts may soon disappear.
French President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t kid around. Last week, the newly minted French leader delivered a bruising rebuke of Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris accord in a televised address. And in a jab at just how backward US climate politics have become, he invited American climate researchers to move to France.
University of Wisconsin-Madison lake researchers discovered the invasive mussel species in Mendota in 2015 and since then the mussels have spread rapidly.
According to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, our very own Milky Way galaxy may float near the center of one of these voids.
When Jing Li was a teenager living in Xuchang, China, her parents gave her an extraordinary gift.
Facing protests from senior scientists, including members of its own advisory board, the National Institutes of Health on Thursday abandoned a plan to help younger researchers by imposing a general three-grant limit.
While she had tried to get sober before, it wasn’t until her doctors treated her disease in several ways that she began recovering. Her treatment regimen includes enrollment in a methadone program, outpatient care and the use of a new smartphone app called A-CHESS, created by a UW-Madison professor.
Addiction CHESS, or A-CHESS, is designed to aid recovery and prevent relapse for people after they leave treatment for substance-use disorders.
Our galaxy is in a giant cosmic void that stretches 1 billion light-years across, according to recent research.
The Milky Way—and everything in it—exists in an enormous void in space that is largely lacking stars, galaxies and planets.
With 168 patents issued last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison moved back into sixth place among 100 universities surveyed around the world last year, according to a news release from the school.
To think of the structure of the universe, and the distribution of matter within it, picture a chunk of Swiss cheese and its holes. Think of all the solid parts as all the invisible and unobservable dark matter and dark energy, while the holes — about 5 percent of the total — contain most visible matter. Add some veins between the holes, and those are like the filaments in space, making up the rest of the visible matter.
ARLINGTON — Another year, another tight state budget and another challenge to keep Wisconsin’s agricultural research stations available for agricultural scientists at UW-Madison.
ARLINGTON — The 2,000-acre Arlington Agricultural Research Station is a busy place these days, serving as the home of about 350 research projects at any one time.
President Trump announced Tuesday that he will keep Francis S. Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health.
More than $1 million was raised for cancer research at the Andy North and Friends golf tournament and dinner this week, according to a release.
Noted: The latest crop of contest finalists will present Tuesday at the 15th annual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference at Union South in Madison, where 500 or more people will gather to hear speakers, panel discussions and more over two days ending Wednesday afternoon.
Noted: The magazine article focuses on the history of the BrainPort, created in the 1960s by the late UW-Madison professor Paul Bach-y-Rita, and how mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer uses the device.
Scientists at UW-Madison have come forward with responses to the U.S.’s withdrawal.
A collection of more than 2,000 mosses has been discovered at a University of Wisconsin-Madison building known for its plant specimens.
A collection of more than 2,000 mosses has been discovered at a University of Wisconsin-Madison building known for its plant specimens. The collection was found inside a cabinet at Birge Hall, where the Wisconsin State Herbarium is housed.Director Ken Cameron said the mosses were gathered in the 1920s by several people including retired Herbarium curator Lellan Cheney. Cheney, who served as served as curator 1891-1903, died in 1938.
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate of Engineering recently awarded a $1 million grant to the College of Menominee Nation and UW-Madison to further collaborate in engineering education and research, campus officials said Thursday.
Jeremy Morris is a futuristic thinker. While some are heralding podcasts as a trendy new medium, Morris is worrying about what will become of them in the future when we may not use iPhones, iPods or MP3s. Morris, an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded PodcastRE, a project that aims to archive podcasts.
The Governor’s Steering Committee on Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Testing and Deployment will advise Walker on how best to advance the testing and operation of self-driving vehicles in Wisconsin. It will include a mix of industry, technology, regulatory and academic members, and build upon the selection of the UW’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory as a test bed.
If the White House has its way, in 2018, 5.8 billion dollars will disappear from the budget of the National Institutes of Health—the largest funder of biomedical research in the U.S. That cut, which was revealed as part of President Trump’s budget proposal last Tuesday, represents 18 percent of the NIH’s budget. It has been described as “a significant blow to medical research” that would “set off a lost generation in American science.”
A local hip-hop-boosting group, along with a University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology researcher … (is) wading into a nexus of music, race, science and politics to undo the damage hip-hop’s reputation has suffered in Madison throughout the years … “Because of the poor relationship the city of Madison has with hip-hop as a whole, and the lack of performance space for so many talented artists, we have taken on this research project that looks at the relationship between music genre and violence, as seen through police calls for service,” reads an initial draft of the study, led by UW-Madison sociology professor Randy Stoecker.
As scientists worldwide try to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus, they’re also trying to find out how widespread the virus is, since many pregnant women don’t have symptoms.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have come up with a smart phone app for addicts that’s getting recognition from Harvard’s Innovation in American Government competition.
The Governor’s Steering Committee on Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Testing and Deployment will advise Walker on how best to advance the testing and operation of self-driving vehicles in Wisconsin. It will include a mix of industry, technology, regulatory and academic members, and build upon the selection of the UW’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory as a test bed.
Timothy Smeeding is a professor at UW-Madison and one of the authors of the report.
Zika could be more dangerous to unborn babies than previously thought, a new study suggests.
As talk of extreme budget-cutting is again in vogue in Washington, that argument appears to have resonance. But an attempt to reduce research overhead could pose the most serious threat not to well-endowed institutions like Harvard, but to state research universities and cash-strapped private colleges.
At issue are grant payments known as indirect-cost reimbursements. Those are the additional amounts that agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation provide to universities that win research grants, to help cover administrative and facilities costs.
The Trump administration’s 2018 budget plan sent to Congress this week calls for major cuts to funding for medical and science research, and that has research universities — including the University of Wisconsin-Madison — defending the work of scientists.
A leadership center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will carry the name of former Gov. Tommy Thompson, honoring the longest-serving head of the state on the 30th anniversary of his taking office.
Boosted by a growth in jobs, poverty in Wisconsin dropped from 10.8% in 2014 to 9.7% in 2015 according to the Wisconsin Poverty Measure.
The annual Wisconsin Poverty Measure study from the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison showed a jobs increase of 70,000 between January 2014 and November 2015 led to a “modest but statistically significant reduction in poverty.”
A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty shows the state’s poverty rate fell from 10.8 percent in 2014 to 9.7 percent in 2015, a nine-year low for the state.
The Trump administration released a 2018 budget proposal Tuesday that delivered on expectations for drastic cuts to student aid programs and university-based research while substantially reshaping federal student loan programs.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank makes the case for continue federal funding for research done at colleges and universities.
Scientists in Sheboygan will be measuring the area’s air pollution problem by land, air and sea.Sheboygan County has long had the reputation of having some of the worst air quality in the state — but scientists have not been able to pin down exactly way.“Having those high ozone levels along the Lake Michigan shore has been a perplexing science problem for a long time,” R. Bradley Pierce, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said.
President Trump’s 2018 budget request to Congress seeks massive cuts in spending on health programs, including medical research, disease prevention programs and health insurance for children of the working poor.
Wisconsin is looking to move into the fast lane on driverless vehicles.
In French (use Google Translate): Karen Strier will never forget this January 20, when she returned to the Federal Reserve Feliciano Miguel Abdala, Brazil. The American primatologist had just granted himself a few months’ absence, far from the 1,000 hectares of forest he has been scrutinizing for more than thirty years. (May be behind paywall).
The University of Wisconsin System will host its first-ever Dairy Summit next month in Madison to bring industry leaders together with world-renowned UW researchers.
Despite facing protests, the National Institutes of Health promised Wednesday to move ahead with a plan to impose a general limit of three major grants per researcher, persuaded by data linking quantity to declining effectiveness.
An ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds is working to incorporate mindfulness techniques into everyday activities for elementary students.
A UW-Madison endeavor to create spinal tissue from scratch is one step closer to changing how your doctor treats your ailments.
The lab at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery has received a grant from the National Science Foundation that will fund experiments to create spinal tissue in a dish for the next five years.
An ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds is working to incorporate mindfulness techniques into everyday activities for elementary students.
The Kindness Curriculum helps students focus on their minds and bodies, while also adding elements of kindness and empathy.
What do you think UW-Madison Astronomy Professor Eric Wilcots eats on his pizza? Or what his greatest fear is working in the field? Find out during this edition of Science Slam! New show from WPR’s Central Time, in partnership with Discover Magazine.
The $1.5 million research station is being paid for through a public-private partnership that includes $750,000 in private funds and $650,000 from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. The property will include 30 acres of production cranberry beds to generate revenue to help support research, along with another five acres of beds for further research studies by faculty at UW-Madison and the USDA.
The $1.5 million research station is being paid for through a public-private partnership that includes $750,000 in private funds and $650,000 from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. The property will include 30 acres of production cranberry beds to generate revenue to help support research, along with another five acres of beds for further research studies by faculty at UW-Madison and the USDA.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) – Plans are being made for a new research facility to support Wisconsin’s $1 billion cranberry industry.
In 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineer Justin Williams oversaw an effort that successfully used a brain-computer interface to send messages from the brain to Twitter.
“It was both a small and a big step,” he told Gizmodo. “Ten years later have we gotten much further? I’m not sure.”
Dam removal is growing in popularity so that fish routes can be restored and they can be removed before they fail and cause harm. But which ones should be removed first? A recent study on barriers in the Great Lakes Basin looked to answer that question with a new tool called Fishwerks. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed an online application to help decide which removal project is the best removal project.
The Discovery Channel and movies such as “Twister” turn storm chasers into folk heroes, so it’s only right that Hollywood make heroes of UW-Madison professor Susan Paskewitz and her crews for fearlessly hunting Wisconsin’s disease-spreading deer ticks.
