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Ask Ms. Scientist: Shots of Absinthe and Different Tastes
By Molly Reppen and Corinne Thornton | Mar. 11, 2014Dear Ms. Scientist,
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Poverty may influence brain growth
By Donald Radcliffe | Feb. 18, 2014Poverty can cause a lot of challenges for a child. Parents in poverty tend to be out working most of the time, and they’re stressed by inconsistent income when they aren’t working. The social support network of parents tends to be smaller. Stress accumulates and indirectly passes down to the children. Children of poorly educated parents hear fewer words and tend to receive commands rather than questions. There are fewer books in poor households. Nutrition, hygeine and sleep can also be negatively affected by poverty.
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IceCube, 2013 breakthrough of the year, brings neutrinos to the fore
By Catherine Steffel | Feb. 18, 2014Buried deep within one and a half miles of dark, clear Antarctic ice lies IceCube. After seven years of construction, the IceCube detector was completed in 2010: one cubic-kilometer of ice instrumented with over 5,000 optical sensors.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: Sticky Skirts and Coffee Schedules
By Corinne Thornton | Feb. 18, 2014Dear Ms. Scientist,
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UW-Madison senior Joshua Shutter receives Churchill Scholarship
By Daniella Emanuel | Feb. 5, 2014University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Joshua Shutter is one of 14 students in the nation in 2014 to receive the Churchill Scholarship for his research in chemistry.
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Touchscreens may do more for toddlers
By Hamdi Hamzah | Feb. 4, 2014“Sesame Street.” “Blue’s Clues.” “Dora the Explorer.” These television programs aim to teach children by providing an early exposure to learning. As effective as they are in increasing a child’s ability to learn, interacting with the screen media has proven to be a better way to educate children at the age of two to three years old—a finding reported by Dr. Heather Kirkorian, a researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology.
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Sustainability is becoming a more prominent theme for UW Housing
By By Ethan Safran and Brita Larson | Feb. 4, 2014When I decided to write about UW’s Housing sustainability projects, I didn’t expect to get a two for one during my interview, but indeed that is what I got. The program manager for sustainability is a brand new position in the housing department, acting as a testament to the importance of sustainability on this campus, and Laura Shere is the first person to hold this esteemed title.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: Icy Bridges and Vaccines
By Corinne Thornton | Feb. 4, 2014Dear Ms. Scientist,
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UW works to understand cosmos
By Suma Samudrala | Feb. 4, 2014The University of Wisconsin-Madison is home to the Plasma dynamo experiment led by physics professor Cary Forest and his colleagues. This experiment has been designed to study plasma physics, which is the study of plasma state of matter. Plasma is a matter different from solids, liquids and normal gases in that it is a highly ionized gas composed of ions, electrons and neutral particles.
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Monkeys may be future model for Ritalin-ADHD studies
By Donald Radcliffe | Jan. 20, 2014Impulsivity —a tendency to act without forethought—is one of the defining characteristics of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. Impulsive people struggle with waiting for rewards, or taking delayed gratification. Thus, they have trouble successfully setting and achieving long-term goals.
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Tracking may help raptor rehabilitation
By Danielle Smith | Jan. 20, 2014Dane County Humane Society is a non-profit organization with a mission to help both animals and people to learn how to assist animals in need. Seven thousand animals of many species, shapes and sizes enter the doors of Dane Country Humane Society every year. They provide wildlife rehabilitation, stray animal holding, adoption service and spay and neutering services to animals from the southern Wisconsin area.
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UW students train computers to play angry birds
By Suma Samudrala | Dec. 9, 2013Artificial Intelligence is defined as the ability for a machine such as a computer to perform functions analogous to learning and decision making. This past summer undergraduates Anjali Narayan-Chen and Liqi Xu taught the computer how to play Angry Birds. Angry birds is a popular game where using a slingshot, the player shoots wingless birds to kill pigs. And like other games, there are several levels of difficulty, different sizes and colors of birds, and different obstacles. With each game, new birds and special abilities can be activated by the player.
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UW student in finals of ‘Dance Your PhD’
By Nambirajan Rangarajan | Nov. 19, 2013On a cold, windy Sunday afternoon in September this year, the ground floor lobby of Union South was filled with students discussing homework and munching pizza. However just two floors above, a dance group in the Northwoods room was getting their groove on. As the minutes ticked by, a crew member yelled, “Only five minutes to go, guys. Let’s shoot the final sequence.” A single take, and it was over!
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Football players and flies taking hits for brain research
By Jacob Blitstein | Nov. 19, 2013Have you ever had a concussion or any other head-related injury resulting in a permanent or temporary change in cognition? Concussions and other Traumatic Brain Injuries are one of the most serious public health problems in the United States. TBIs occur when a force to the head causes the brain to strike the inside of the skull resulting in swelling and sometimes even bleeding in the brain. These injuries are extremely common in falls, car accidents and many sports-related injuries.
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UW challenges invasive species paradigm
By Jon Spike and Donald Radcliffe | Nov. 5, 2013Invasive species are one of the most important issues facing aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems today. No self-respecting ecologist would say otherwise.
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Future of regenerative medicine may include CRISPR gene repair
By Sam Karp and Suma Samudrala | Nov. 5, 2013A step toward advancement in regenerative medicine by improving the commonly used gene repair technique was made possible by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Morgridge Institute for Research and Northwestern University.
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Ask Mr. Scientist: Real-life vampires and death scares
By Michael Leitch | Nov. 5, 2013Dear Mr. Scientist,
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Surveying the trees of Flambeau Forest
By Donald Radcliffe | Oct. 15, 2013I spent a month this summer living in a cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
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