I&D

  • Portion of Social Security card Social Security at 75: Rooted in the Wisconsin Idea Aug. 11, 2010 This 2006 article is excerpted from “On Wisconsin” magazine and provides a window into the creation of Social Security, which marked its 75th anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 14.
  • Kids gardening GardenFit program helps kids pare summer weight gain Aug. 10, 2010 After spending the morning spreading hay mulch and bark at Madison's East High Youth Farm, a group of middle-schoolers lined up for a well-deserved lunch. Under the canopy of a large oak, they slathered tortillas with beans, then spooned on tomatoes, bell peppers, onions and carrots that they had chopped themselves.
  • Someone sleeping Brain responds same to acute and chronic sleep loss Aug. 9, 2010
  • Apples Native pollinators: Key to sustainable fruit production? Aug. 5, 2010 As a group of students ogles wild flowers on a sunny day at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, the blooming dotted mint, iron weed and black-eyed susans are certainly glorious. But these adult students are not concentrating on the flowers. Instead, they are focusing on the insects busily pollinating those blooms.
  • Pipette H1N1 flu virus used new biochemical trick to cause pandemic Aug. 5, 2010 The influenza virus, scientists well know, is a crafty, shape-shifting organism, constantly changing form to evade host immune systems and jump from one species, like birds, to another, mammals.
  • Students looking at map Students size up seismic sensor sites July 29, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison students Matthew Kogle and Kelly Hoehn logged thousands of miles this summer driving rural Wisconsin roads, scanning the landscape. When they found a promising spot, they knocked on the door of the nearest farmhouse and tried to interest the owners in their cause.
  • Sky map image portion IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays July 27, 2010 Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results - including an early finding about a phenomenon the telescope was not even designed to study.
  • GLEON buoy Global grassroots lake science network has roots in Wisconsin July 19, 2010 Inspired and led by freshwater scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researchers eager to understand global ecosystems from end to end are now monitoring a series of buoys in lakes on every continent except Africa. Each buoy carries instruments to measure fundamental data on the weather above the water and the temperature and chemistry below it.
  • Condor logo ‘Condor’ brings genome assembly down to Earth July 19, 2010 Borrowing computing power from idle sources will help geneticists sidestep the multimillion-dollar cost of reconstituting the flood of data produced by next-generation genome-sequencing machines.
  • Brain scan Researchers discover possible way to predict Alzheimer’s July 14, 2010 Two new studies, involving a newly identified gene, show that Alzheimer's disease could be diagnosed as much as 20 years before symptoms develop.
  • Clint Sprott http://wisconsinidea.wisc.edu/features/professor-shows-the-wonder-full-side-of-physics/ July 12, 2010 The audience laughs and applauds as the performers on stage pull trick after trick from their sleeves: suspending a ball in midair, defying gravity, turning water into ice right before people's eyes.
  • Photo of bridge site UW-Madison engineer lends experience to ambitious bridge-building effort July 8, 2010 Remote and virtually undisturbed, the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge boasts a bounty of flora and fauna, both common and rare species that thrive in the largest delta floodplain in the upper Midwest.
  • Neural cells Gene regulating human brain development identified July 1, 2010 With more than 100 billion neurons and billions of other specialized cells, the human brain is a marvel of nature. It is the organ that makes people unique.
  • Algae on Lake Mendota Confronting toxic blue-green algae in Madison lakes July 1, 2010 Harmful algal blooms, once considered mainly a problem in salt water, have been appearing with increasing severity in the Madison lakes, and a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has geared up to understand the when, where and why of these dangerous "blooms."
  • School of Fish Stirring the ocean: Calculating the role of the oceans' swimmers June 28, 2010 The world's oceans, we know, are constantly shaken and stirred by the winds and the tides and other physical forces of nature.
  • Image of deforestation Incidence of malaria jumps when Amazon forests are cut June 16, 2010 Establishing a firm link between environmental change and human disease has always been an iffy proposition. Now, however, a team of scientists from UW-Madison, writing in the online issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, presents the most enumerated case to date linking increased incidence of malaria to land-use practices in the Amazon.
  • Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center logo New microbial genetic system dissects biomass to biofuel conversion June 14, 2010 A research team at the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) at UW-Madison has developed a powerful new tool that promises to unlock the secrets of biomass degradation, a critical step in the development of cost-effective cellulosic biofuels.
  • Image of a dictionary page, with the word UW-Madison Researchers Find New Subtype of Breast Cancer June 11, 2010
  • Microscopic image It's a small world (for small people) after all May 10, 2010 Lab-coated and goggled, Troy Dassler's 15 third graders are itching to power up their digital optical microscopes.
  • European bison In Europe, bison find plenty of room to roam May 5, 2010 The European bison, a close relative of the American bison, has been on a slow road to recovery for almost a century. Europe's largest grazing animal once dwelled from central Russia to Spain, but by the beginning of the 20th century, habitat loss and hunting had reduced them to 54 animals.