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Meditation may affect pain perception

Mediation could change how people experience pain, recent findings by researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison reveal.

UW-Madison researchers hope to decrease detection time for NEC

Imagine holding a state-of-the-art research laboratory in the palm of your hand. The device can go anywhere you go, and nearly anyone can operate it. What would you do with it?

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UW ranked fourth largest research spender in nation

The University of Wisconsin-Madison spent the fourth-highest amount of money nationally on research for the 2011 fiscal year.

Lake mixing possible solution to fighting invasive species

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are conducting groundbreaking research on “lake mixing” as a tool to control fish species composition.

Brief: Researchers find more efficient method to process biomass

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method to more efficiently convert biomass into high-demand chemicals and energy-dense fuels.

Sandy Path

This image shows the forecasted paths of Sandy on Oct. 25 by the U.S. model run by NOAA four days prior to making landfall.

Sandy Composite

A satellite image from Oct. 27 showing the low pressure system (circled in red) as it moves down from Alaska. The disturbance would eventually pull Sandy (labeled) back towards the east coast.

Satellite imagery helps forecast path of Sandy

Thanks to satellite imagery done in part by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, people along the mid-Atlantic coast were prepared for the worst when Superstorm Sandy made landfall Oct. 29.

Collaborative study aims to decode high STEM dropout rate

A recent report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology projects a shortfall of one million college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) over the next decade. Approximately five to six of every 10 students that begin in a STEM major will switch majors to a non-STEM field before graduation.

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Paddlefish

Pracheil shows off a paddlefish she caught on the Mississippi River during the study. Individual states currently control the regulation of this species, someting Pracheil claims needs to change.

Going for a swim with the paddlefish

Freshwater fish migrate, but we do not know where and why.

Hackathon

UW-Madison students compete in Facebook-sponsored hackathon

Most students could not imagine working on a school project for more than 10 hours straight. However, approximately 60 University of Wisconsin-Madison students, ranging from freshmen to masters, competed in a Facebook-sponsored hackathon Friday and Saturday of last week.

Scratch and sniff

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Nobel Prize winner speaks at UW-Madison

Nobel Prize-winning scientist and University of Utah professor Mario Capecchi shared stories and advice from his career as a molecular biologist with students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday.

Baumgartner reminds us why we love sports

Sunday afternoon, in the midst of a good slate of National Football League games, millions of people were glued to the television or a computer screen. Instead of pigskin and fantasy football, though, we watched history.

The biomechanics of stronger bones

Among the books and binders in her office in the Mechanical Engineering building, associate professor Heidi-Lynn Ploeg’s shelves are filled with bones. She pulls out a thin cardboard sleeve, and inside are dozens of mouse femurs. Each one of these leg bones is shorter than the length of a fingernail.