UW professor finds chili peppers may ease nerve condition
Hot peppers can make your salsa spicy and your chili fiery. Now it appears they may also ease the pain of a debilitating nerve condition.
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Hot peppers can make your salsa spicy and your chili fiery. Now it appears they may also ease the pain of a debilitating nerve condition.
An environmental group led by UW-Madison students proved it really can make a difference. Four months after writing a letter to Dell Chair Michael Dell, two UW-Madison students participated in a teleconference call with Dell himself.
Health statistics are often broken down into categories by race. But increasingly, scientists question whether race is a meaningless concept that has no basis in biology or genetics.
The evening skies will be the stage for a rare celestial show for the next few weeks, providing the opportunity to see up to five planets with the naked eye.
In the 1940s, Mahatma Gandhi led India to its independence from Britain using the principles of nonviolence. His 70-year-old grandson, Arun Gandhi, explained to a UW-Madison audience Monday how those principles remain relevant in the 21st century, as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate's Distinguished Lecture Series.
Stem cells are so fragile that in shipping them from one lab to another, almost 99 percent of the cells die. UW-Madison researchers have pioneered a technique to improve stem cell survival by up to a factor of 20.
Historians study the past by asking what happened. Dr. Jared Diamond, evolutionary biologist and renowned author, argues it is equally important to ask why events happened in the specific way they did.
UW-Madison researchers discovered a way to promote the growth of neural stem cells, in research that may ultimately benefit patients of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Professor Frank Drake says it is only a matter of time before mankind detects signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
You might expect that plants that grow in cold climates such as Wisconsin have to protect themselves from the freezing winter temperatures to survive. But recent research at UW-Madison indicates that these plants may actually need prolonged exposure to cold to survive and reproduce.
On a really hot day, a person may prefer to stay in one place without moving. One UW-Madison professor and his team has isolated a strain of fruit flies that, at elevated temperatures, also cannot move-they become temporarily paralyzed until the temperature drops again.
Chancellor John Wiley can trace his passion for science to his childhood, when his interest in chemistry compelled him to order radioactive iodine from a mail-order catalog. He was 12 years old.
Nobel laureate Dr. Carl Wieman believes that science professors should apply the same scientific techniques from their labs in their classrooms as well. Speaking to UW-Madison students and local and non-local professors Wednesday evening, Wieman argued that science professors should experiment to find the most effective teaching methods and share them with colleagues.
Congressional panels and the media usually approach the stem- cell controversy by asking, \When does life begin?"" and ""When does an embryo become a person?""
Being a legislator cannot be easy. For any one issue, politicians must seek the opinions of experts and listen to constituents on every side, then formulate a well thought-out stance. They must repeat this process for countless issues, whether social, economic, domestic or international. The responsibility that politicians bear, the responsibility to effectively represent the voices of their public, is a heavy burden indeed.
Daniel Snyder is the white-skinned owner of Washington's pro football team, the Redskins. Several of the team's marquee players include Laveranues Coles, a black-skinned wide receiver, and Patrick Ramsey, a white-skinned quarterback. Twice this season, Washington will face a tough Dallas defense featuring yellow-skinned linebacker Dat Nguyen.
One Aesop fable tells of a group of frogs that prays to Zeus to deliver a leader. Zeus playfully throws a log to them as their \king,"" but when they realize it is inanimate, they beseech him anew to provide them a leader. Tired of their nagging and angry that they will not lead themselves, he sends a stork, which eats all the frogs. The moral? We end up with the leaders we deserve.