New research shows that wastewater treatment plants that employ a combination of purifying techniques followed by reverse osmosis – a process by which water is forced through a barrier that only water can pass – do a good job of removing chemicals that may elicit health effects.
Understanding how non-academic issues such as gender, race, class and self-concept affect the classroom performance of young people is the goal of a new UW-Madison certificate program targeted for educators.
While pleasurable experiences may lift your spirits, the ones that leave you with a sense of purpose and meaningful relationships may do even more: protect the body against ill health.
Licenses to produce and sell fruit from UW-Madison’s HyRed cranberry – the first publicly developed cranberry variety in more than three decades – are now being offered through the university’s patent and licensing organization.
For women whose overactive bladders aren’t settled by standard therapies, urologists at UW Hospital and Clinics now have another option: a pacemaker for bladder function.
By non-invasively imaging the thickness of carotid arteries — the major vessels running up the neck and supplying the brain with blood — preventive cardiologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have helped to show people a clearer picture of their chances of developing heart disease or having a stroke.
Just because a big company owns all the media outlets in town doesn’t necessarily mean newspapers and broadcast stations will look and sound alike, according to a review of the research in this area published in the summer issue of the journal Contexts.
While a rapidly changing climate may alter the composition of northern Wisconsin’s forests, disturbances such as logging also will play a critical role in how these sylvan ecosystems change over time.
Road density in northern Wisconsin has doubled during the last 60 years, but forest managers have a time window to fight the non-native plants that often come with construction and overwhelm native plant life, according to new research.
In their desire to get close to nature by building lakeside cottages and homes in the woods, Americans may very well be hastening the decline of many native bird species that breed in forest habitats.
Rusty crayfish, an invasive species now crawling across the rocky bottoms of lakes and streams throughout the United States and Canada, may not always have a stronghold once they enter these bodies of water.
Veterinarians at UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine believe they’re the first to use the oral drug flecainide to resolve a chronic case of atrial fibrillation in a horse.
Despite recommendations from federal public health experts that smoking cessation treatment should be provided to all smokers, state employers are failing to provide their employees with recommended smoking cessation treatment coverage, according to a study published in this month’s American Journal of Public Health.
Everyone knows not to get between a mother and her offspring. What makes these females unafraid when it comes to protecting their young may be low levels of a peptide, or small piece of protein, released in the brain that normally activates fear and anxiety, according to new research published in the August issue of Behavioral Neuroscience.
When it comes to forests, air pollution is not an equal opportunity hazard.
While many people recoil at the sight of a paper-like nest tucked under the eaves or behind a foundation crack, a UW-Madison scientist is one of the few who eagerly await the year’s first yellow jackets.
Five Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants totaling more than $900,000 have been awarded to GenTel BioSurfaces, Inc. in 2004 by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, company officials announced today (Thursday, July 15).
In an effort to speed up research on disease-causing pathogens, including ones that could be used as biological weapons, scientists at UW-Madison will team with an information technology (IT) company, SRA International, Inc., to build an online, publicly accessible library of data on these infectious agents and their genomes.
A newly published study by a UW-Madison research team points the way to solving two of life’s seemingly eternal but unrelated mysteries: how birds that migrate thousands of miles every year accomplish the feat on very little sleep and what that ability means for humans who are seriously sleep-deprived or face significant sleep problems.
Tuberculosis, a mycobacterium that infects human lungs, still claims the lives of about 2 million people every year. Existing vaccines provide questionable protection, and they can even cause disease in individuals with compromised immune systems.