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Sciencecast: Public Health Series - Episode 1
By Maggie Liu | Nov. 6, 2017Welcome back to the third installment of Sciencecast, the Daily Cardinal’s science podcast series.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: dreams and food comas
By Jordan Gaal and Maggie Liu | Nov. 6, 2017Do animals dream? Why do I get food comas?
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Care Talks program addresses healthcare communication
By Cayla Guerra | Oct. 23, 2017Healthcare professionals want to help patients and loved ones to become more knowledgeable about their care and become proficient in supporting themselves medically.
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UW researchers look to improve dairy production efficiency
By Josie Russo | Oct. 23, 2017Oh where, oh where has the nitrogen gone? Oh where, oh where can it be?
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UW plasma physics research receives national funding
By Jordan Gaal | Oct. 23, 2017Plasma is an essential element in science fiction, most notably in the Star Wars franchise as a critical component of the Stormtroopers’ guns.
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Marmoset fathers take on the child burden
By Evan Cory | Oct. 23, 2017Parenting styles vary among primate species. Some species’ offspring rely on the mother alone for caretaking and education.
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UW community joins over jumping worms?
By Lauryn Branham | Oct. 9, 2017Many people throughout the Madison area love to spend time outdoors.
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Research center is set on funding for six years, thanks to grant
By Lauren Sorensen | Oct. 4, 2017A $15.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation was recently awarded to a flagship UW-Madison interdisciplinary research center focused on material science.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: Jell-O and pepperoni
By Jordan Gaal and Maggie Liu | Sep. 25, 2017Where does pepperoni come from? What is Jell-O made from?
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UW-Madison professor talks public health
By Maggie Liu | Sep. 25, 2017As the field of medicine expands, so too does the field of public health. Public health is the marriage of health and community.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: crunchy food and dogs
By Jordan Gaal and Maggie Liu | Sep. 11, 2017Why do we crave crunchy foods? Is my dog really color blind?
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UW-Madison offers new course on social genomics
By Cayla Guerra | Sep. 11, 2017The human genome is like a blueprint which lays out how each of us are built, how we function in society and sometimes even how we die.
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UW Space Place director talks solar eclipse
By Maggie Liu | Aug. 14, 2017In a week, one of the summer’s most hotly anticipated events will arrive, as Americans everywhere finalize plans to travel to a 70 mile wide strip of land stretching from Oregon to South Carolina. “It’s the return of the corona after one hundred years,” said Jim Lattis, director and co-founder of the UW Space Place.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: Cell phones and moons
By Jordan Gaal and Maggie Liu | Aug. 14, 2017Where did the moon come from? Why is it hard to focus while using our cell phones?
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Immunotherapy research aids in fight against cancer
By Cayla Guerra | Aug. 14, 2017Like an inoperable tumor inside a patient’s brain, cancer has rooted itself deep within our society.
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Badgerloop reveals newest Hyperloop pod to public
By Maggie Liu | Jul. 12, 2017The Badgerloop team unveiled their latest pod on June 17 in the Engineering Hall to the public. This coming August, they will take their pod and travel to Hawthorne, California to compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition II. Sponsors and community members got up close to the pod and talked with Badgerloop members who worked on different aspects of the pod, including electrical systems, virtual reality, propulsion, feasibility and more. Badgerloop is a student organization at UW-Madison comprising of mostly undergraduate students.
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New method of studying fungi reinvigorates drug discovery
By Evan Cory | Jul. 11, 2017Drug discovery and fungi have gone hand in hand since pharmacology emerged as a relevant science.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: Beaches and Sun Burns
By Jordan Gaal and Maggie Liu | Jun. 12, 2017Where do beaches come from? What’s the difference between a sun tan and a sun burn?
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Cheaper, more sustainable way to produce plastic precursors
By Yingshan Deng | May. 1, 2017Scientists and engineers at UW-Madison developed an economically feasible process to synthesize a possible substitute for petroleum-derived chemicals from non-edible biomass. This substitute, called 1,5-pentanediol, is a type of alpha, omega-diol that has two alcohol groups attached at the beginning and the end of a long carbon chain, which is mostly synthesized as a byproduct of other commercially produced diols. The research was published this April in the journal, ChemSusChem. “We hope to be able to make larger quantities and volumes and be able to put it in the applications that are currently used for other molecules,” said Zachary Brentzel, a graduate research assistant in college of engineering at UW-Madison and the first author of this paper.
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UW botanist studies extraterrestrial life
By Cayla Guerra | Apr. 24, 2017How did we get here? This is one of the most deep-seated questions in the human race. It is also David Baum’s, exobiologist in the department of botany at UW Madison, research. Life must have started at some moment when the “soupy mixture” of chemicals and minerals stopped being random and became alive. But what does it mean to be alive?
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