For scientists wrestling with problems as diverse as containing superhot plasma in a fusion reactor, improving the accuracy of weather forecasts, or probing the unexplained dynamics of a distant galaxy, turbulence-spawning ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 11, 2018
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Our future on Earth may also be our past. In a study published Monday (Dec. 10, 2018) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers show that humans are reversing a long-term cooling trend tracing back ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2018
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When the tiny and invasive spiny water flea began appearing in University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers' nets in 2009, scientists began to wonder how Lake Mendota, one of the most-studied lakes in the world, went from ...
Environment
Dec 5, 2018
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Hidden in the salt spray from waves crashing on the beach are clues to our planet's future.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2018
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A new, low-cost wound dressing developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers could dramatically speed up healing in a surprising way.
Bio & Medicine
Nov 29, 2018
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have made a material that can transition from an electricity-transmitting metal to a nonconducting insulating material without changing its atomic structure.
Condensed Matter
Nov 29, 2018
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Cities clamor for new development, with its promise of new housing or economic opportunities. Then comes the unwelcome side effect: congestion.
Environment
Nov 29, 2018
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As a child growing up in Mexico, Carlos Santibanez-Lopez feared the scorpions that would often decorate the walls and ceilings of his home in search of a warm place with plenty of food.
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2018
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Diets rich in fiber have long been associated with an array of positive outcomes, chief among them healthy hearts and arteries protected from the ravages of atherosclerosis, the accumulation of fatty plaques linked to heart ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 12, 2018
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Several billion years ago, as the recently formed planet Earth cooled down from a long and brutal period of heavy meteor bombardment, pools of primordial muck began to swirl with the chemical precursors to life.
Materials Science
Nov 12, 2018
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