<![CDATA[The Daily Cardinal - Science RSS]]> http://www.dailycardinal.com/se/the-daily-cardinal-science-rss-1.302773 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:33:10 -0400 en <![CDATA[Wishing you a 'b-lighted' Halloween]]> http://www.dailycardinal.com/science/wishing-you-a-b-lighted-halloween-1.932953

By: Joe St. Peter


The night before Halloween, I found myself desperately searching for a costume. After three years of donning humorous and cuddly attire, I gradually lost my self-perpetuated reputation for being hardcore This year I decided to go as the most badass entity...

]]> 1.932953 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:59:30 -0500 <![CDATA[New writing collection simplifies science]]> http://www.dailycardinal.com/science/new-writing-collection-simplifies-science-1.792968

By: Thomas Jasen Gardner


Real-life sci-fi episodes including a self-inflected deathly itch, transcendental meditation, torture victims and genetically engineered rice and 26 stories glorifying these motifs grace the pages of the ninth book in a yearly series called “The Bes...

]]> 1.792968 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:01:22 -0400 <![CDATA[Famous dentist returns to UW for education]]> http://www.dailycardinal.com/science/famous-dentist-returns-to-uw-for-education-1.792956

By: Simone Warrack


In January 2009, Richard Smith re-enrolled at UW-Madison after a 46-year hiatus. He is a distinguished dental surgeon who left UW-Madison for dental school at Columbia in 1963 without completing his undergraduate education. When you were a little boy, wha...

]]> 1.792956 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:25:34 -0400 <![CDATA[Breakthrough UW study may lead to cure for blindness in the future]]> http://www.dailycardinal.com/breakthrough-uw-study-may-lead-to-cure-for-blindness-in-the-future-1.628425

By: Amanda Gasper


In a recent breakthrough, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have successfully grown retinal cells from two types of stem cells, a critical step in treatments of certain kinds of blindness. Noticing a lack of stem cell research involving the reti...

]]> 1.628425 Mon, 5 Oct 2009 23:48:06 -0400 <![CDATA[The media and medicine]]> http://www.dailycardinal.com/science/the-media-and-medicine-1.525351

By: Steve Furay

Time to take up more responsibility

By now, the American public understands that the debates surrounding health-care reform have little to do with medicine.   Both sides of the argument have launched accusations about the delivery systems, whether it’s suggestions of a government...

]]> 1.525351 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:37:29 -0400 <![CDATA[This is no monkey business]]> http://www.dailycardinal.com/science/this-is-no-monkey-business-1.525315

By: K.J. Hanssman

UW-Madison professors show that monkeys can groove to music,contrary to previous evudence

While humans and other primates share many similarities in their molecular makeup and behavior, responding to music is not on the list. Researchers studying how primates respond to music have always found that they scarcely do and in fact, given a choice ...

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