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Optimum running speed is stride toward understanding human body form

March 19, 2009

Runners, listen up: If your body is telling you that your pace feels a little too fast or a little too slow, it may be right. Read More

Teeth of Columbus’s crew flesh out tale of new world discovery

March 19, 2009

The adage that dead men tell no tales has long been disproved by archaeology. Read More

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center joins second annual NanoDays

March 19, 2009

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) on Nanostructured Interfaces presents NanoDays 2009, part of the second annual nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering and its potential impact on the future. Read More

Arthur D. Code, pioneering space astronomer, dies

March 16, 2009

Arthur D. Code, whose lifelong love of the stars and the night sky led to a meteoric career in astrophysics, died in Madison, Wis., on March 11 after a long illness. He was 85. Read More

Evolution, ecosystems may buffer some species against climate change

March 5, 2009

Although ecologists expect many species will be harmed by climate change, some species could be buffered by their potential to evolve or by changes in their surrounding ecosystems. Read More

Top regional high school students to participate in international science fair

March 2, 2009

Two Madison high school students earned top honors in the third annual Capital Science and Engineering Fair, held Feb. 28 on the University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering campus. Read More

Going green, one moped at a time

February 26, 2009

Sixteen UW–Madison engineering students spent last fall figuring out how to make the Vespa scooter more green. Read More

Models present new view of nanoscale friction

February 25, 2009

To understand friction on a very small scale, a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers had to think big. Read More

IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole

February 25, 2009

As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011. Read More

UW-Madison narrows field of potential WID research themes

February 23, 2009

The research direction of the rising Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) is coming into sharper focus as UW–Madison this week (Feb. 20) announced the list of successful pre-proposals for the public half of the new public-private institute. Read More

Genetic information personalizes warfarin prescribing

February 18, 2009

Warfarin, one of the world's most widely used drugs, is also one of the trickiest to prescribe. Half of those who take it are at risk of serious problems when given the standard starting dose. Read More

Engineered bacterium churns out two new key antibiotics

February 18, 2009

In recent years, scientists have isolated two potent natural antibiotics - platensimycin and platencin - that are highly effective against bacterial infection, including those caused by the most dreaded drug-resistant microbes. Read More

Course builds community of biomedical entrepreneurs

February 16, 2009

A new multidisciplinary course at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is preparing entrepreneurial graduate students to bring biomedical innovations to the patients who need them. Read More

iPhone sleep improvement application wins at innovation competition

February 12, 2009

A software application for the iPhone and the iPod touch that will help people sleep and wake up more effectively won the $10,000 top prize in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity, an annual University of Wisconsin–Madison invention competition that rewards innovative and marketable ideas. Read More

How do you mend a broken heart? Maybe someday with stem cells made from your skin

February 12, 2009

A little more than a year after University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists showed they could turn skin cells back into stem cells, they have pulsating proof that these "induced" stem cells can indeed form the specialized cells that make up heart muscle. Read More

Psychoactive compound activates mysterious receptor

February 12, 2009

A hallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to South America and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have discovered. Read More

Sequences capture the code of the common cold

February 12, 2009

In an effort to confront our most familiar malady, scientists have deciphered the instruction manual for the common cold. Read More

Intrepid explorers and the search for the origin of species

February 12, 2009

A UW–Madison professor of genetics will give the plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Friday, Feb. 13. Read More

Mouse study reveals genetic component of empathy

February 12, 2009

The ability to empathize with others is partially determined by genes, according to new research on mice from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Read More

Noted Australian science writer to visit

February 11, 2009

Wilson da Silva, editor in chief of the award-winning Australian science magazine COSMOS, has been named a UW–Madison science writer in residence for this spring. Read More