More than 10 million acres burned across the country during the 2017 U.S. wildfire season at a cost of more than $2 billion—the largest bill ever.
Environment
Mar 12, 2018
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An engineering physics professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has created new materials that behave in an unusual way that defies the standard theory engineers use for designing things like buildings, airplanes, ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 7, 2018
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For many ecologists, fieldwork involves majestic mountains or rushing rivers or large tracts of wilderness. At the very least, it means exploring natural areas that aren't defined by human development.
Environment
Mar 6, 2018
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) invested more than $27 billion in biomedical research through competitive grants during its 2017 fiscal year. Those grants were awarded based on scores assigned by, and conversation ...
Social Sciences
Mar 5, 2018
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Using advanced computational methods, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists have discovered new materials that could bring widespread commercial use of solid oxide fuel cells closer to reality.
Materials Science
Feb 22, 2018
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Lennon and McCartney. Abbott and Costello. Peanut butter and jelly.
Materials Science
Feb 5, 2018
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On Nov. 18, 2017, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA launched the Joint Polar Satellite System, the first in an advanced series of polar-orbiting weather satellites.
Earth Sciences
Feb 5, 2018
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Googling "SNARE proteins," neuroscientist Edward Chapman gets a screenful of images showing corkscrew-shaped molecules, intertwined as they seize the outer membranes of two cells. "They did not give us credit at Wikipedia, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 31, 2018
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The Colorado potato beetle is notorious for its role in starting the pesticide industry - and for its ability to resist the insecticides developed to stop it.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2018
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Space physicists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar ...
General Physics
Jan 30, 2018
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