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Ask Mr. Scientist: Why the cold weather makes you miserable
By Michael Leitch | Feb. 5, 2013Dear Mr. Scientist,
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Starfish: the terror of the Great Barrier Reef
By Nia Sathiamoorthi | Dec. 9, 2012It is hard to picture starfish as the thugs of the marine world. But ravenous, thorny starfish have been terrorizing and destroying Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for almost three decades.
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Ask Mr. Scientist: Matches and making gold
By Sam Karp and Michael Leitch | Dec. 9, 2012Dear Mr. Scientist,
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Meditation may affect pain perception
By Tamar Myers and By Chace Goff | Dec. 4, 2012Mediation could change how people experience pain, recent findings by researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison reveal.
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UW-Madison researchers hope to decrease detection time for NEC
By Nia Sathimoorthi | Dec. 4, 2012Imagine holding a state-of-the-art research laboratory in the palm of your hand. The device can go anywhere you go, and nearly anyone can operate it. What would you do with it?
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Ask Mr. Scientist: Decaf coffee, orange juice and toothpaste
By Michael Leitch | Dec. 4, 2012Dear Mr. Scientist,
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Lake mixing possible solution to fighting invasive species
By Donnie Radcliffe | Nov. 19, 2012Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are conducting groundbreaking research on “lake mixing” as a tool to control fish species composition.
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Brief: Researchers find more efficient method to process biomass
Nov. 12, 2012Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method to more efficiently convert biomass into high-demand chemicals and energy-dense fuels.
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Satellite imagery helps forecast path of Sandy
By Matthew Kleist | Nov. 6, 2012Thanks to satellite imagery done in part by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, people along the mid-Atlantic coast were prepared for the worst when Superstorm Sandy made landfall Oct. 29.
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Collaborative study aims to decode high STEM dropout rate
By Kristen Andersen | Nov. 6, 2012A recent report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology projects a shortfall of one million college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) over the next decade. Approximately five to six of every 10 students that begin in a STEM major will switch majors to a non-STEM field before graduation.
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Ask Mr. Scientist: feeling colder after chewing gum
By Micheal Leitch | Nov. 6, 2012Dear Mr. Scientist,
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Going for a swim with the paddlefish
By Donnie Radcliffe | Oct. 24, 2012Freshwater fish migrate, but we do not know where and why.
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UW-Madison students compete in Facebook-sponsored hackathon
By Leo Rudberg | Oct. 24, 2012Most students could not imagine working on a school project for more than 10 hours straight. However, approximately 60 University of Wisconsin-Madison students, ranging from freshmen to masters, competed in a Facebook-sponsored hackathon Friday and Saturday of last week.
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Ask Mr. Scientist: scented stickers and hand warmers
By Michael Leitch | Oct. 24, 2012Dear Mr. Scientist,
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Nobel Prize winner speaks at UW-Madison
By Jack Casey | Oct. 23, 2012Nobel Prize-winning scientist and University of Utah professor Mario Capecchi shared stories and advice from his career as a molecular biologist with students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday.
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The biomechanics of stronger bones
By Paige Miller and Brian Weidy | Oct. 12, 2012Among the books and binders in her office in the Mechanical Engineering building, associate professor Heidi-Lynn Ploeg’s shelves are filled with bones. She pulls out a thin cardboard sleeve, and inside are dozens of mouse femurs. Each one of these leg bones is shorter than the length of a fingernail.
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Discovering the weight of the universe
By Nia Sathiamoorthi | Oct. 9, 2012I am no stranger to Chamberlain’s white walls or garish fluorescent lighting. But until recently, I never noticed the ‘No Bosons Allowed’ sign above the Physics club lounge on the second floor. Until recently, the word boson meant nothing to me at all. Now it represents the heart of all matter.
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Loss of arctic ice may change Wisconsin weather patterns
By Kristen Andersen | Oct. 9, 2012A new study suggests the diminishing ice cover in the arctic might be playing an important role in the weather patterns Wisconsin experiences.
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Reconstructing the sounds of Leopold's world
By Donnie Radcliffe | Oct. 4, 2012There is a new scientific field in town, known as soundscape ecology. The field works to understand the noise heard in a particular ecosystem, what it says about the ecosystem and how it affects animals.
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Brief: President appoints Bahr to nuclear waste board
By Matthew Kleist | Sep. 30, 2012University of Wisconsin-Madison hydrogeologist and professor of geology Jean Bahr was recently appointed to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board by President Obama.
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