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Prescription medication boosts success in quitting smoking
Smokers taking the medication bupropion were nearly twice as likely to have quit smoking one year later than those receiving patches alone or a placebo, according to a new national study published by UW Medical School researchers.
UW expert makes sense of weird weather
La Niña may get the attention, but if forecasts of unusually wild weather this spring come true, lesser-known forces like "zonal" jet streams and "Bermuda highs" will be responsible.
Satellite laser to take the pulse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet
By shining a laser from space onto the Antarctic and Greenland, scientists may soon peel away some of the mystery surrounding the fate of the massive ice sheets that, through natural fluctuation or human-induced climate change, could drastically alter the levels of the world's oceans.
UW research fuels growth in spin-off, startup companies
Research at the university has fueled a swift rise in new technology-based business ventures in Wisconsin over the past five years, according to a recent study of spin-off and startup companies.
Race matters
A new study on race and medicine may sadden and anger UW Medical School's Vanessa Northington Gamble, but it doesn't surprise her. Professionally and personally, she knows all too well that skin color and cultural background figure in medicine, as in every other aspect of American life.
Perception is reality for artificial intelligence expert
Like most computer scientists, Pawan Sinha is drawn to the challenge of making computers smaller, faster and smarter, but he's taking his lessons from the ultimate computational machine: the human brain.
Scientists discover key cog in receptor that governs ripening
Digging deep into the protein molecules that govern ripening and aging in plants, scientists have found an ion of copper -- and a genetic link to some of the oldest life forms on the planet.
Fauna versus flora
Like Aldo Leopold before him, UW–Madison botanist Don Waller is about to take an unpopular stand on Wisconsin's booming deer herd.
For Leopold, radical measures of control took a toll
Some 50 years ago, Aldo Leopold, UW–Madison professor of wildlife ecology and environmental icon, sounded the first alarm about Wisconsin's looming overabundance of deer.
Research describes human origins debate before Darwin
When Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was first published in 1859, the intellectual and spiritual controversy that colors nearly any discussion of where humans come from was already a two-decade-old phenomenon in the United States.
Quality child care can carry social benefits for kids
If the quality is there, children in all varieties of child care show greater confidence with peers and more compliance with adults, according to one of the most expansive studies ever of child care in America.
Future of West tied to saving, not extracting, the land
The road to economic stability for the west today, argues a UW–Madison rural sociologist, is one that takes an ironic twist to the frontier axiom that "all wealth comes from the land."
Research describes human origins debate before Darwin
The role of Nostratic - a hypothetical language first thought to have been uttered more than 12,000 years ago - in the development of human language has raged for more than a century in the fields of linguistics, archeology, anthropology and classics.
Butterflies shed light on biological novelties
How the elephant got its trunk, the deer its antlers and the rattlesnake its rattles may seem like disparate questions of developmental biology, but the origins of these novelties, according to the genes of butterflies, may have much in common.
Renaissance sensibilities
Automation librarian Peter Gorman manages to gracefully integrate computers, Old Icelandic language and old-time music into a single life.
Participants needed for Down, Fragile X syndrome study
The Waisman Center at UW–Madison is seeking help from families of adolescents with Down syndrome or Fragile X syndrome for a new research project on communication difficulties.
UW Scientists Report New Twist In Mammalian Cloning
Using the unfertilized eggs of cows, scientists have shown that the eggs have the ability to incorporate and, seemingly, reprogram at least some of the genes from adult cells from an array of different animal species.
Study shows pork lower in fat and leaner than ever before
A recently published study by researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences shows that fresh pork has enhanced its reputation as the "other white meat."
Maps give new view of world and cosmos
A reindeer skin coat from Siberia, a Lukasa memory board from the Congo and an arrangement of knotted strings left by the Inca make up some of the objects of study in the latest volume in the massive History of Cartography project.
UW employee gambles on new arthritis therapy
Ken Ebbe, director of systems engineering for the Division of Information Technology, has seen his rheumatoid arthritis go into remission after undergoing an experimental treatment at the UW Medical School.