Tag Research

Drug courts test smart phone app to help addicted offenders

February 9, 2011

Smart phones make phone calls, play music, take pictures and keep track of your appointments. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are investigating ways in which smart phone applications can help people deal with a chronic illness such as addiction.

New induced stem cells may unmask cancer at earliest stage

February 4, 2011

By coaxing healthy and diseased human bone marrow to become embryonic-like stem cells, a team of Wisconsin scientists has laid the groundwork for observing the onset of the blood cancer leukemia in the laboratory dish.

Instrument makers give essential support to research enterprise

February 2, 2011

In engineering and the physical, medical and psychological sciences, equipment is often a critical barrier between a bright hypothesis and a scientific achievement. Science by definition involves doing something new, and that something new often requires a one-of-a-kind instrument. A whatchamacallit. A gadget. Anything from a specialized bolt to a self-propelled machine.

A matter of timing: New strategies for debugging electronics

February 1, 2011

The components that make up the integrated circuits in electronic devices are nano-sized and number in the billions. Sometimes "bugs" lurking in these complex systems can emerge and cause significant performance errors.

Study: Cows done in by bad spuds

January 28, 2011

Anyone taking the recent, mysterious deaths of 200 steers in a Portage County, Wis., feedlot as a sign of the apocalypse can rest easy. The cows, according to the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, were done in by bad spuds.

Morgridge Center supports initiatives through matching grant program

January 27, 2011

The Morgridge Center for Public Service at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently awarded 11 matching grants totaling $334,739 to support service learning, community-based research or civic engagement work by UW–Madison faculty and researchers in the areas of education, environment or health.

Stan Temple: A life saving threatened species

January 27, 2011

As a UW–Madison wildlife professor, Stan Temple is heir to the outsized legacy of Aldo Leopold and, until his retirement, held the chair occupied by Leopold and his intrepid successor, Joe Hickey, the wildlife biologist whose work helped put the nails in the coffin of the insecticide DDT.

Microscope allows research to go where it never has

January 25, 2011

IRENI, funded with a $1 million award from the National Science Foundation, produces infrared images with previously impossible to see detail and whose reach will be far ranging.

Rhythmic vibrations guide caste development in social wasps

January 24, 2011

Future queen or tireless toiler? A paper wasp's destiny may lie in the antennal drumbeats of its caretaker.

Center helps identify economic impact of traffic on truck-borne freight

January 21, 2011

The 2010 Urban Mobility Report, the most accurate picture of traffic congestion in 439 U.S. urban areas, now includes information about truck delay and the economic impact of congestion specific to trucking.

Stress, anxiety both boon and bane to brain

January 18, 2011

A cold dose of fear lends an edge to the here-and-now - say, when things go bump in the night.

Euclid brings new computing capabilities to UW–Madison researchers

January 12, 2011

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have a significant new computing resource. Dubbed the Euclid cluster, it enables research projects to marshal the power of many computers at once to run large-scale computing jobs much faster and to move large datasets and files at high speeds among individual servers that make up the cluster.

Monroe manufacturer partners with UW–Madison on electric truck

January 11, 2011

Monroe, Wis., is a small city with a big reputation for its cheese. Now, a partnership between manufacturer Orchid Monroe and University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers may expand the city's expertise to include innovative clean vehicle technology.

Water, water everywhere focus of new sustainability project

January 6, 2011

An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is turning a comprehensive lens on Madison's water in all its forms - in the lakes, streets, faucets, ground and atmosphere - thanks to the National Science Foundation.

Ever-sharp urchin teeth may yield tools that never need honing

December 22, 2010

To survive in a tumultuous environment, sea urchins literally eat through stone, using their teeth to carve out nooks where the spiny creatures hide from predators and protect themselves from the crashing surf on the rocky shores and tide pools where they live.

UW-Madison fusion experiments earn nearly $11 million in grants

December 21, 2010

Researchers with two University of Wisconsin–Madison plasma fusion experiments have received $10.7 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Sciences. The Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX) drew $5.1 million, plus an additional $900,000, while two grants to the Pegasus Toroidal Experiment total $4.7 million.