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The case of the missing milk money: Farmers enlist a posse to corral a profit robber
Dairy farmers wear a lot of hats during a typical day - mechanic, nutritionist, agronomist, accountant, and veterinarian. They do those jobs well, but sometimes a fresh look at a farm operation can come in handy - like when potential profits are slipping away and none of the usual tricks seem to staunch the flow.
Future dairy leaders from two countries cross paths and borders
Hundreds of UW–Madison students head to Mexico each spring. Almost all of them spend their time at beach resorts, shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of other U.S. students. They return with great suntans. UW–Madison students Chad Staudinger and Kristin Noeldner also went to Mexico. They spent their time in central Mexico, shoulder to shoulder with Mexican farm crews and hundreds of cows.
New technique provides path to manufacturing complex nano-electronic devices
By merging the latest principles of lithography and self-assembly block-copolymer techniques, researchers at UW–Madison and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland developed a hybrid approach that maximizes the benefits and minimizes the limitations of each approach to nanomanufacturing.
Researcher offers new perspective on sexual desire in later life
A study by John DeLamater of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Morgan Sill of the University of Michigan, published in the May 2005 issue of The Journal of Sex Research, found that the sexual desire of older people is influenced more by attitudes toward sex than by biological factors such as medication.
Polymer grid technology a boon for bridges
When the long-awaited Highway 151 bypass around Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, opens later this year, vehicles traveling northbound will cross DeNeveu Creek on a bridge like no other in the country.
Transportation safety and research tips
With the twin forces of summer travel and road construction poised for their annual collision, reporters may be interested in projects at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that focus on the safety and reliability of America's highways. UW–Madison is a national leader in transportation research and is home to an interdisciplinary program on transportation engineering and urban planning.
The Inverse Doppler effect: ECE researchers add to the bylaws of physics
What if the speed of light is a constant only most of the time? What if gravity sometimes pushed instead of pulled? Scientists are increasingly asking what would seem like far-out questions regarding the laws and rules of physics after discovering conditions and materials where the rules don't quite apply.
Study depicts peril, hope for children of jailed mothers
For a young child whose mother is imprisoned, life's prospects are predictably grim. But a new study, the first empirical examination of the attachment relationships of young children whose mothers are in prison, suggests that simple interventions may prevent a downward social spiral for a rapidly growing and vulnerable population.
Shared computing grid cuts data mountains down to size
Although University of Wisconsin–Madison professors Wesley Smith and David Schwartz operate in completely different scientific spheres - one seeking to explore the fundamental properties of matter and the other trying to wrest free the secrets of the human genome - both have the same dilemma: They are awash in a sea of data.
Distributing computing resources: The social challenge
By bringing together a diverse group of scientific interests to share a large, distributed computing resource, the Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW) itself has become an important subject of research.
Heartgard scientist to receive honorary degree
The scientist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of ivermectin — the drug that combats river blindness in humans, heartworm in dogs and a broad spectrum of parasites in horses and other livestock — will receive an honorary degree from UW–Madison on Friday, May 13.
Faculty and staff experiment with new type of broadcasting
"Podcasting" is the new buzzword for sending audio over the Internet, and faculty and staff on campus are looking at it as an outreach vehicle and an academic tool.
Can I get a copy of that molecule? Biology goes 3-D with new technology
In an era of quantum dots and genome maps, science education faces an interesting challenge: How can students come to grips with the complexity of the infinitesimally small? The answer: Fire up the copy machine.
Researchers devise nano-scale method for investigating living systems
By observing how tiny specks of crystal move through the layers of a biological membrane, a team of electrical and computer engineers and biologists has devised a new method for investigating living systems on the molecular level.
Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene
Zeroing in on the core cellular mechanisms of sleep, researchers at University of Wisconsin Medical School have identified for the first time a single gene mutation that has a powerful effect on the amount of time fruit flies sleep.