Category Science & Technology
Spiraling nanotrees offer new twist on growth of nanowires
Since scientists first learned to make nanowires, the tiny wires just a few millionths of a centimeter thick have taken many forms, including nanobelts, nanocoils and nanoflowers.
Recent sightings: Human Powered Vehicle Challenge
Photos: Jeff Miller UW–Madison’s human powered vehicle team competed against teams from around the country at Sauk Prairie Airport…
With cell as muse, art fuels scientist’s quest
For Ahna Skop, the tipping point to a career in science was a dance and a food fight.
Facility gives geology department new dimension
A geoscience visualization lab that opened last week in Weeks Hall will add a new dimension to geology research and education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
UW’s computing research prowess brings Microsoft to Madison
Microsoft, the world's largest computer software company, will open an advanced development laboratory in Madison later this spring, helping expand on a highly productive 20-year research and alumni relationship between the company and the University of Wisconsin–Madison computer sciences department.
UW-Madison part of DOE-funded ‘microgrid’ collaboration
University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers will collaborate with industrial and government partners on a $14 million project to implement a microgrid power backup system at the nation's fifth-largest incarceration facility-the Santa Rita Jail.
Professor blends ecology, history
As a University of Washington graduate student in the late 1980s, Nancy Langston traveled to a national park in Zimbabwe to study an endangered bird. She came back with a resolve to know more about people.
Recent sightings: Seismometer image of Midwest earthquake
A UW–Madison geology department seismometer in Weeks Hall recorded the tremors of an earthquake that shook Madison and many other areas…
Leading scientists to highlight annual stem cell research symposium
A cadre of North America's leading stem cell scientists will land in Madison April 16 for the third annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium.
Bioethics forum to be an evolutionary affair
The 2008 International Bioethics Forum, to be held April 17-18 at Promega Corporation's BioPharmaceutical Technology Center (BTC) in Fitchburg, will delve into the science and controversies of evolution in the 21st Century.