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Antenna design turns entire vehicles into broadcasting equipment
UW–Madison engineers are working to increase the effective size of antennas by turning the military vehicles that carry them into transmitters.
New material combines useful, typically incompatible properties
A team of engineers and physicists has created an entirely new material in which completely contradictory properties can coexist.
With simple process, engineers fabricate fastest flexible silicon transistor
The transistor can transmit data wirelessly, which could unlock advances in applications ranging from wearable electronics to sensors.
Built-in shades may protect delicate sensors from blinding light
Even commonplace laser pointers can fry the optics of sensitive cameras. Optical limiters may be able to shade those eyes.
Forensic botany course covers legal side of wood, pollen, contraband logging
The new course focuses on science as problem solving, but also fills utterly practical needs.
In these microbes, iron works like oxygen
Two new studies can shed some light on the perennial question of how life arose, but they also have practical applications in the search for life in space.
Sanders plans Kohl Center event
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders will hold a rally on Sunday at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Kohl Center.
Feds renew big IceCube Observatory contract with UW–Madison
IceCube, consisting of 5,000 optical sensors buried deep in the ice beneath the South Pole, reported the first detection of high energy cosmic neutrinos in 2013.
NAS panel takes stock of U.S. science literacy
Professors Dominique Brossard and Noah Feinstein are exploring the association between knowledge of science and public perception of and support for science.
Holder to give keynote at Wisconsin Law School Hooding Ceremony
Holder served as the 82nd U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015 — the third-longest serving attorney general and the first African-American to hold the office.
Drought alters recovery of Rocky Mountain forests after fire
Researchers say warm, dry conditions in the years following fires impedes the growth and establishment of vulnerable new seedlings.
Single brain cells reveal genes controlling formation, development
The exploratory analysis may open a new window on understanding complex disorders like autism.
UW-Madison traffic lab assisting city in competition for $50 million
The award will go to one mid-sized American city to fund the creation of an integrated transportation system for the future, including driverless "smart" transit.
Hoslet to lead University Relations
Charles Hoslet “is a Badger through and through, known to legislators, business leaders, alumni and donors in Madison and across our entire state,” says Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
New climate model better predicts changes to ocean-carbon sink
Researchers shed light on the relationship between humans' carbon dioxide emissions and future climate change.
Pagliarini earns presidential recognition for research on mitochondria
Dave Pagliarini has received the U.S. government’s highest honor for scientists in the early stages of their careers.
Northwest neighbor
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) appeared for a luncheon and speech at the Microbial Sciences Building Feb. 17. The senator's visit was hosted by UW–Madison's Office of Federal Relations, the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science.
New method for bio-designing yeast could improve biofuel production
Both the yeast strain and the method of its design could help overcome a significant bottleneck in the biofuels pipeline.
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar to deliver UW–Madison lecture
Klobuchar's talk, on 'Internationalism in the Heartland,' will take place Feb. 17 at the Plenary Hall of Nancy Nicholas Hall.
UW–Madison researchers begin work on Zika virus
Very little is known about the virus even though more than 50 years have passed since it was discovered in the Zika Forest in Uganda.