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Ask Mr. Scientist: scented stickers and hand warmers
(10/24/12 8:21pm)
Dear Mr. Scientist,
Nobel Prize winner speaks at UW-Madison
(10/23/12 7:44am)
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
(10/18/12 6:49am)
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
(10/12/12 8:11pm)
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.
CMS Higgs decay event
(10/10/12 2:40am)
Simulation of an event captured by CMS in 2012 showing the characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson. The Higgs boson decays into a pair of Z bosons, which both decay further. One Z boson decays into a pair of electrons, the green lines, and the other into a pair of muons, the red lines.
Discovering the weight of the universe
(10/10/12 2:32am)
I am no stranger to Chamberlain’s white walls or garish fluorescent lighting. But until recently, I never noticed the ‘No Bosons Allowed’ sign above the Physics club lounge on the second floor. Until recently, the word boson meant nothing to me at all. Now it represents the heart of all matter.
Earth
(10/10/12 2:28am)
Loss of arctic ice may change Wisconsin weather patterns
(10/10/12 2:26am)
A new study suggests the diminishing ice cover in the arctic might be playing an important role in the weather patterns Wisconsin experiences.
Reconstructing the sounds of Leopold's world
(10/04/12 6:37pm)
There is a new scientific field in town, known as soundscape ecology. The field works to understand the noise heard in a particular ecosystem, what it says about the ecosystem and how it affects animals.
Navigating the art of individuality
(10/01/12 1:10am)
The concept of being a grown-up terrifies me. I’m not too concerned about moving out of my parents’ house or having to work 40 (okay, probably more than 40) hours per week. It’s a fear of heightened expectations—knowing my actions can’t be cushioned forever.
Brief: President appoints Bahr to nuclear waste board
(09/30/12 9:25pm)
University of Wisconsin-Madison hydrogeologist and professor of geology Jean Bahr was recently appointed to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board by President Obama.
Fake News Friday: Thompson dresses in drag, applauds LGBT community
(09/28/12 4:34am)
In a strategic move to appeal to Wisconsin’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community, former Wisconsin Governor and U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson hit the campaign trail dressed in a 1960s bedtime nightie he found in his Aunt Ethel’s closet.
Brief: UW physics research gets an upgrade
(09/27/12 7:18pm)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison physics department recently completed the addition of a neutral beam injector to the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST).
Brief: Stem cell research aims to answer how tissue develops
(09/27/12 7:06pm)
New research done at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is helping to explain how stem cells create the differing tissues which make up the human body.
Blood vessel
(09/26/12 2:50am)
‘Floppiness’ helps explain margination of blood cells
(09/26/12 2:47am)
Red blood cells are much floppier than their white counterparts.
Institute on Aging expands MIDUS research to Milwaukee
(09/26/12 2:44am)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute on Aging is set to broaden its research on Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), a nationwide study that investigates the varying degrees adult health and aging is impacted by societal, cognitive and behavioral factors.
Mercury: why ‘mad hatters’ were so mad
(09/26/12 2:38am)
In a stuffy milliner’s workshop in Danbury, Conn., a hat maker brushed a solution of mercury nitrate over a set of rabbit furs. This was the first step of several that the hatmaker would perform to transform the furs into the stiff felt hats in fashion in the late 18th century. As he worked, the milliner breathed in vapors from the muggy air.
Ask Mr. Scientist: Atomic clocks
(09/26/12 2:36am)
Dear Mr. Scientist,
