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Environment - Earth Sciences - 08.01.2025
Why do birds make so many different sounds? A new UW-Madison study gets at the underlying factors
Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute to the immense diversity of the sounds they make are not well understood. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have conducted the first-ever global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world.
Health - Life Sciences - 26.11.2024

University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemists have developed a new, efficient method that may give first responders, environmental monitoring groups, or even you, the ability to quickly detect harmful and health-relevant substances in our bodies and environments. Small molecules that interact with proteins can initiate, enhance, and inhibit vital biological processes.
Health - Life Sciences - 26.11.2024

A gene therapy approach to boosting the placenta is safe in monkeys, according to a new, short-term study, bringing the potential treatment closer to improving birthweights of human babies and sparing them the complications of an early birth and developmental difficulties later in life. In humans, placental insufficiency restricts the growth of developing fetuses and typically leads to premature delivery and extended stays in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Life Sciences - Health - 12.11.2024

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers targeting a group of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases have found success using a gene therapy treatment in an animal model. The approach, which uses CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, offers a unique and promising strategy that could one day treat rare but debilitating motor neuron diseases in humans.
Life Sciences - Health - 04.11.2024

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are warning that artificial intelligence tools gaining popularity in the fields of genetics and medicine can lead to flawed conclusions about the connection between genes and physical characteristics, including risk factors for diseases like diabetes. The faulty predictions are linked to researchers' use of AI to assist genome-wide association studies.
Health - 14.10.2024
UW-Madison case study investigates gap in quality of life for Hmong nursing home residents
While a growing body of research has revealed racial disparities in the quality of life for nursing home residents, few studies have focused on Hmong residents in these facilities. A new University of Wisconsin-Madison case study is filling that gap with key insights into the population's needs that aren't being met in the nursing home setting.
Health - Environment - 30.08.2024
’Forever chemicals’ show up in Wisconsin residents
A large, population-based study shows that while most Wisconsin residents have some "forever chemicals" known as PFAS in their blood, those who have the highest levels are higher income, older white men who have eaten locally-caught fish. The new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health analyzed serum from 605 adults who donated blood between 2014 and 2016 as part of the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin.
Environment - Earth Sciences - 01.08.2024
Retreat of tropical glaciers foreshadows changing climate’s effect on global ice
As they are in many places around the globe, glaciers perched high in the Andes Mountains are shrinking. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their collaborators have uncovered evidence that the high-altitude tropical ice fields are likely smaller than they've been at any time since the last ice age ended 11,700 years ago.
Environment - Campus - 09.07.2024

Lake and river foams study reveals high PFAS levels, even though underlying water may be less contaminated According to a new study of rivers and lakes in Wisconsin, natural foams from these bodies of water contain much higher concentrations of perand polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) than the water below them.
Agronomy / Food Science - Materials Science - 27.06.2024

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed low-cost sensors that allow for real-time, continuous monitoring of nitrate in soil types that are common in Wisconsin. These printed electrochemical sensors could enable farmers to make better informed nutrient management decisions and reap economic benefits.
Astronomy / Space - 11.06.2024
Wind from black holes may influence development of surrounding galaxies
Clouds of gas in a distant galaxy are being pushed faster and faster - at more than 10,000 miles per second - out among neighboring stars by blasts of radiation from the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center. It's a discovery that helps illuminate the way active black holes can continuously shape their galaxies by spurring on or snuffing out the development of new stars.
Astronomy / Space - Chemistry - 10.06.2024
Small, cool and sulfurous exoplanet may help write recipe for planetary formation
A surprising yellow haze of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas "dwarf" exoplanet about 96 light years away from our own solar system makes the planet a prime target for scientists trying to understand how worlds are formed. Astronomers discovered the planet, GJ 3470 b, in 2012 when the planet's shadow crossed the star it orbits.
Chemistry - Physics - 30.05.2024

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed the most sensitive method yet for detecting and profiling a single molecule - unlocking a new tool that holds potential for better understanding how the building blocks of matter interact with each other. The new method could have implications for pursuits as varied as drug discovery and the development of advanced materials.
Environment - Agronomy / Food Science - 29.05.2024

Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change. Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while well-intended policy choices can create incentives for farmers to till up new lands, releasing even more heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere. That's why strategies for sustainable plant-based fuels focus on marginal lands - fields that are too hard to cultivate or don't produce good enough yields to be considered profitable.
Health - 24.05.2024
Raw milk containing H5N1 can infect mice, while lab-based heat treatments greatly reduce the virus
Consuming raw cow's milk that contains H5N1 avian influenza virus poses an infection risk, but a laboratory process that simulates high-temperature pasteurization reduces the virus in infected milk by more than 99. That's according to a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists, who reported their findings May 24 in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Health - Life Sciences - 30.04.2024

In an effort to improve delivery of costly medical treatments, a team of researchers in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed a stimulating method that could make the human body more receptive to certain gene therapies. The researchers exposed liver cells to short electric pulses - and those gentle zaps caused the liver cells to take in more than 40 times the amount of gene therapy material compared to cells that were not exposed to pulsed electric fields.
Computer Science - Innovation - 26.04.2024

Digital privacy and security engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that the artificial intelligence-based systems that TikTok and Instagram use to extract personal and demographic data from user images can misclassify aspects of the images. This could lead to mistakes in age verification systems or introduce other errors and biases into platforms that use these types of systems for digital services.
Life Sciences - Health - 25.04.2024

A newly developed nanomaterial that mimics the behavior of proteins could be an effective tool for treating Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. The nanomaterial alters the interaction between two key proteins in brain cells - with a potentially powerful therapeutic effect. The innovative findings, recently published in the journal Advanced Materials , were made possible thanks to a collaboration between University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists and nanomaterial engineers at Northwestern University.
Health - Pharmacology - 15.03.2024
Some lymphomas become resistant to treatment. Gene discovery may offer path to overcome it
Patients with some types of lymphoma that become resistant to standard treatments may benefit from a therapy that University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are evaluating after they discovered a key process that fuels the blood cancers' resistance to current drugs. Here are the details: An effective treatment, until it isn't: The UW-Madison team sought to understand why some patients with certain non-Hodgkin's lymphomas that originate in white blood cells called B cells develop resistance to drugs that have become a standard of care for the disease.
Health - Life Sciences - 20.02.2024

New research from the Weeks Lab in the Department of Biochemistry opens the door for scientists to explore cell death, a critical biochemical process, with greater ease. Here's the rundown on professor Amy Weeks and her lab's recent research and paper: Cell death is a healthy and constant part of life.
Health - Today
The UB confers honorary doctorates on Harry C. Dietz and Bart L. Loeys, experts on Marfan and Loeys-Dietz syndromes
The UB confers honorary doctorates on Harry C. Dietz and Bart L. Loeys, experts on Marfan and Loeys-Dietz syndromes

Philosophy - Today
Spotlight on: Professor Philip Goff - challenging the foundations of science through philosophy
Spotlight on: Professor Philip Goff - challenging the foundations of science through philosophy
Music - Today
Taylor Swift fans may be ready to 'Shake Off' plastic vinyl records, new University of Glasgow study shows
Taylor Swift fans may be ready to 'Shake Off' plastic vinyl records, new University of Glasgow study shows
Innovation - Feb 14
Scaling sustainable carbon fibre production: A breakthrough in lignin-based innovation
Scaling sustainable carbon fibre production: A breakthrough in lignin-based innovation
