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Ask Mr. Scientist: Sneezing at the Sun, foamy water and keeping time by looking at a rock
By Michael Leitch | Sep. 11, 2012Dear Mr. Scientist,
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Killer heat: beating a summer drought
By Corinne Thornton | Aug. 28, 2012The forecast for welcome week this year is just about perfect. Highs are in the mid 80s with lots of sun. However, all those who resided in Wisconsin or the Midwest in general this summer can remember when temperatures soared into the mid-100s accompanied by high humidity and drought a month and a half ago. Some conditions were so severe that many Fourth of July firework festivities were canceled. Dane and Columbia counties even saw roads buckle and “pavement blow-ups.”
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Revealing the dark side of Curie’s ‘beautiful radium’
By Zach Clark and Kristen Anderson | Aug. 28, 2012Row upon row of women sat in a musty factory hand-painting watch dials. Each woman brought her camel-hair paintbrush to her lips, drew it into a point and carefully drew on numbers with a radiolumiescent paint. One by one these dial painters mysteriously became ill. They suffered from anemia, bone fractures and jaw necrosis, and some even died.
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Hormone takes up fight against cancer
By Andrew Kerber | Aug. 28, 2012The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) recently signed a license agreement with AhR Pharmaceuticals for exclusive rights to the development and use of ITE, a hormone that has the potential to treat some types of cancer and obesity.
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Ask Mr. Scientist: of butterflies and aluminum
By Michael Leitch and Katie Panosh | Aug. 28, 2012Dear Mr. Scientist,
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UW-Madison scientists aid Higgs boson search
By Jennifer Laaser and Benji Pierson | Jul. 16, 2012SCIENCE
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UW professors win prestigious awards
By Matthew Kleist and Phil Condon | Jun. 8, 2012SCIENCE
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Summer programs offer science and perspective
By Nia Sathiamoorthia | May. 10, 2012SCIENCE
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory making headway
By Corinne Thornton and Jayme Zwerling | May. 3, 2012SCIENCE
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Private company performing tests to send astronauts into space
By Matthew Kleist | May. 3, 2012Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, conducted a mock launch Monday, April 30 in preparation for an upcoming mission. The goal of the test was to gather data that would be used in preparation for and during future launches.
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Earth Day's Wisconsin Beginnings
By Alex Pacheco and Kristen Andersen | Apr. 20, 2012SCIENCE
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Ask Mr. Scientist: From ozone to compostable chip bags
By Rachel Fettig and Samy Moskol and Michael Leitch | Apr. 20, 2012SCIENCE
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