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Ask Ms. Scientist: Stem cells and computers

What’s the real difference between Mac and PC?

Using T Cells to fight cancer

Treating cancer is complex as each tumor differs greatly from another. This is due to their genetic makeups. Similarly, each patient responds differently to treatments. This uniqueness stimulates the development of personalized treatment.

Peer facilitated courses offer students lessons for current, post-college finances

The UW-Madison School of Human Ecology has created two workshop-oriented courses to help undergraduate students prepare to handle finances during and after college.Each course can be taken for one semester and students will receive one graduation credit upon completion. Both classes are set up in a peer-facilitated teaching model where peer educators use a hands-on approach to give students a better understanding of finance. The courses include Consumer Science 111 and 321. CS 111 is recommended for freshmen and sophomore students and teaches topics that cover how to manage a budget plan. CS 321 discusses topics such as auto insurance and 401ks and is geared towards upperclassmen. UW-Madison senior Alaina Legler is a retail major in SoHE and section leader for the program. Her involvement started after taking the first CS 111, offered in the fall of 2014. She explained that peer educators are not limited to personal finance majors. Educators can be students who have taken a personal finance course or who simply want to get leadership and teaching experience.

A new "luckier" way to build plastics

Professor Ive Hermans has a different philosophy when it comes to running a research group and laboratory full of brilliant students.

Researcher rethinks lactic acid bacteria

Fermented products can range anywhere from beer to sourdough bread to soy sauce to ethanol fuels. In the microbial realm of fermentation, the process is fundamentally the same: Microorganisms such as bacteria and yeast metabolize sugars into alcohol. But often, the process can be plagued by a major drawback.

Ask Ms. Scientist: Winter cold & black ice

Why are some winters worse than others?

Badgerloop unveils pod, exposes public to Hyperloop transportation

The Badgerloop team revealed their pod Tuesday for the first time at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery to eager transportation enthusiasts, including University of Wisconsin-Madison students, industry sponsors and community members, in preparation for the SpaceX Hyperloop competition this coming January.

Precision therapies advance at UW

By mimicking natural molecular pathways in the human body, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed molecular tools that could regulate gene expression.

Graduate students of Dr. Ansari's lab design synthetic transcription factors.

Badgerloop plans to reveal pod Tuesday

Innovating transportation is the goal of one student organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Come January 2017, the team of about 120 students will have the opportunity to display their skills and creativity at the first ever SpaceX sponsored Hyperloop competition.

Ask Ms. Scientist: Snow and more snow

Are all snowflakes really unique?

Science in brief

Split brain activity allows you to listen and drive, simultaneously:

Sciencecast: Climate Change Series - Episode 6

In the final episode of this semester’s Sciencecast: Climate Change Series, we talk to Dr. Jonathan Martin, professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Martin helps us recap our series and enlighten us on mid-latitude weather systems, as well as decipher between global warming and climate change.

Science in brief

UW professors develop sensors to detect harmful materials:

Zebra mussels found in Lake Mendota

Lake Mendota had once been the home for swimming, sailing and fishing, among many other recreational and scenic activities. But since the discovery of zebra mussels in the lake by a limnology lab last fall, the lake’s environment has shifted, resulting in changed food sources for fish and less attractive experiences for water activities at the Memorial Union terrace on a summer day.

Sciencecast: Climate Change Series - Episode 5

Welcome back to Sciencecast: Climate Change Series!

Ask Ms. Scientist: Herd immunity and cry-laughing

What is herd immunity?

UW professor leads petition to save venus flytraps

Ecologists at University of Wisconsin-Madison led a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Oct 21, demanding Venus flytrap be recorded as an endangered species in accordance with the Endangered Species Act.

Students respond to meningitis on campus

Sore arms and talks of a deadly infection flooded the campus last week, a result of students swarming the Southeast Recreational Facility to receive the first of two free meningococcal B vaccines offered by the university’s health services after three UW-Madison students fell ill this past month.