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Ask Ms. Scientist: boiling pasta and Scantron machines
By Julie Spitzer | May. 1, 2016Why does pasta boil over? How do Scantron machines work?
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Science writer to talk to UW classes about science in the field of journalism
By Hannah Malone | Apr. 19, 2016Alex Witze, science writer and journalist for Nature and Science News magazines, is on UW-Madison’s campus this week to discuss how to be a reporter in the current world of journalism and science.
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UW-Madison research indicates meditation can improve attention span
By Peter Coutu | Apr. 19, 2016A study published April 18 by Scientific Reports journal, conducted by UW-Madison researchers, indicated that short meditation exercises can help improve the attention span of those who multitask with different forms of media.
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Music benefits the mind and health
By Maggie Liu | Apr. 18, 2016Music is a universal language. It can make you laugh or cry. It can soothe you after a stressful day, or get your blood pumping for a competition.
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Center for Healthy Minds researches best ways to improve mental health, well being
By Negassi Tesfamichael | Apr. 18, 2016For most people, exercise includes breaking a sweat by lifting weights, going for a run or playing a game of pick-up basketball. However, researchers at UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds focus on training the mind in order to seek better health.
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UW-Madison professors discuss the future of gene editing at Tuesday event
By Peter Coutu | Apr. 12, 2016UW-Madison hosted a town hall Monday night at Union South with presentations about the future of gene editing both on a global and local scale.
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Researchers from around nation to attend stem cell symposium
By Peter Coutu | Apr. 11, 2016UW-Madison announced Friday that Stem Cells in the 4th Dimension, an annual scientific meeting, will focus on how time affects stem cells in terms of development, maturation and aging.
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UW-Madison highlights research at 2016 Science Expedition
By Peter Coutu | Apr. 4, 2016UW-Madison hosted its 14th annual Science Expedition over the weekend to highlight research performed by students, faculty and scientists at the university. The expedition allowed attendees to interact with students and professors at UW-Madison laboratories, museums, greenhouses and research centers.
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University receives funding to operate telescope in South Pole
By Jake Skubish | Mar. 31, 2016UW-Madison announced the renewal of its funding with the National Science Foundation to operate a telescope known as “IceCube” buried under ice in the South Pole, according to a university news release. The funding for IceCube will be $35 million over the next five years. IceCube is located at the NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and operates to detect high-energy cosmic neutrinos, the discovery of which has led to other scientific findings, according to the release.
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UW-Madison professors research how much public knows about science
By Sammy Gibbons | Mar. 29, 2016Two UW-Madison professors are helping analyze data on American science and health literacy with the National Academy of Sciences panel for a report to be released in 2017. Dominique Brossard, a life sciences communication professor, and Noah Feinstein, a School of Education professor, serve as two of 12 members on the committee.
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Artificial eye that can see in the dark created by UW-Madison researchers
By Jessica Dorsky | Mar. 15, 2016UW–Madison engineers have created an artificial eye that can see in the dark and be used for search-and-rescue robots, surgical scopes, telescopes and recreational purposes, including night photography. Hongru Jiang, a UW-Madison professor of computer and biomedical engineering and the study’s author, said he gained inspiration for the artificial eye from unique cells that make up the retina of elephant nose fish, according to a university release.
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Female fruit flies adapt to male phallus
By Margaret Liu | Mar. 6, 2016The fruit fly, as intolerable as they can seem, is integral to studying and understanding genetics. John Pool, a UW-Madison assistant professor in genetics, studies population genetics primarily by using fruit flies.
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PPP envisions to protect pollinators
By Jordan Gaal | Mar. 6, 2016The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that honeybees pollinate 80 percent of the country’s insect crops.
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PPP envisions to protect pollinators
By Jordan Gaal | Mar. 6, 2016The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that honeybees pollinate 80 percent of the country’s insect crops.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: eye boogers and airplane germs
By Julie Spitzer | Mar. 6, 2016What are eye boogers? Where is germiest seat on an airplane?
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UW-Madison professor explores how Americans react to science
By Sarah Ferguson | Mar. 2, 2016Members of the UW-Madison community met Tuesday night at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery to hear a lecture given by UW-Madison professor of life science and communication Dietram A.
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UW-Madison professor Dave Pagliarini wins award for mitochondrial research
By Peter Coutu | Feb. 23, 2016President Barack Obama announced earlier in February that the Director of Metabolism at the Morgridge Institute for Research Dave Pagliarini is one of the 105 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award, which was created in 1996, is given to scientists who show great potential in the early portion of their careers.
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Fast Radio Bursts observed
By Maggie Liu | Feb. 21, 2016The universe is a vast and mysterious space, filled with distant and puzzling objects, but UW-Madison physics professor Peter Timbie has played a huge role in helping to demystify it by giving us a deeper understanding of the incredibly rare cosmological phenomenon called Fast Radio Burst: a singular pulse of radio signal. Timbie and his lab work with understanding the early universe, using large radio telescopes to detect the signals emitted by distant pulsars, which are neutron stars that emit regular and repeated radio wave signals across the universe. During a radio survey using the Green Bank Radio Telescope in Green Bank, Va., they heard that a research group in Australia had detected over ten Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: sports fanatics and caffeine
By Julie Spitzer | Feb. 21, 2016Is there any science as to why some people get so emotionally involved while watching a sports game? What are the dangers of drinking too much coffee?
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Ask Ms. Scientist: road salt and naps
By Julie Spitzer | Jan. 31, 2016What are the effects of road salt on the environment? How long is the perfect nap?
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