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• Printed photonic crystal mirrors shrink on-chip lasers down to size July 22, 2012 Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections that could give computers a huge boost in speed and energy efficiency.
• Lake algae: What you don’t see can really hurt you July 17, 2012 The strikingly blue algae that afflicted the Madison lakes last week hardly needs a danger sign to warn of its toxicity.
• A Hubble Space Telescope original returns to Wisconsin July 17, 2012 After a journey of some 535 million space miles, give or take, and years languishing in a cavernous government warehouse, one of the original scientific instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope has splashed down in Wisconsin.
• UW geneticist remembered as his papers are read July 17, 2012 In a conference room in the Genetics/Biotech Building on campus, a small group gathers for a weekly discussion of a journal article.
• UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee award inter-institutional research grants July 12, 2012 Twelve teams of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will collaborate with the help of the third round of Intercampus Research Incentive grants.
• Madison Community Foundation funds K-12 science programs at Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery July 12, 2012 During the next year, kids and their families will be able to enjoy six new ways to experience hands-on science at the Town Center of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
• Down on the cacao farm: Sloths thrive at chocolate source July 11, 2012 Like many Neotropical fauna, sloths are running out of room to maneuver.
• $3 million grant to train new scientists to collaborate on conservation challenges July 5, 2012 A new type of forest is taking root in Puerto Rico's abandoned sugar cane fields. The new stands are full of invasive trees, but they harbor large numbers of endangered native bird species. From the perspective of conservation science, are these forest parcels good or bad? And how should they be managed?
• UW scientists play key role in discovery of a new particle consistent with Higgs boson July 4, 2012 Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aided by scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have narrowed the search for the elusive Higgs boson, discovering a new particle with a mass in the region of 125 GeV.
• Social media helps doctoral candidate reach out on research July 3, 2012 For researchers, describing complex science to folks outside their discipline can be a tricky or even unpleasant experience.
• Four UW–Madison students attending prestigious Nobel conference July 2, 2012
• Mission deliscious: A look at Babcock Hall ice cream June 26, 2012 What makes Babcock ice cream so good to eat—and so good for science, students and industry?
• Greenland ice may exaggerate magnitude of 13,000-year-old deep freeze June 25, 2012 Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a historical thermometer, adding temperature data to studies of the local conditions up to the Northern Hemisphere’s climate. But the method — comparing the ratio of oxygen isotopes buried as snow fell over millennia — may not be such a straightforward indicator of air temperature.
• Blood-brain barrier building blocks forged from human stem cells June 25, 2012 The blood-brain barrier -- the filter that governs what can and cannot come into contact with the mammalian brain -- is a marvel of nature. It effectively separates circulating blood from the fluid that bathes the brain, and it keeps out bacteria, viruses and other agents that could damage it.
• National network innovation program builds on UW–Madison success June 14, 2012 Suman Banerjee's work finds plenty of happy users every day, but it's not every day the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer sciences professor helps inspire a national program supporting technical innovation.
• Learn about science in Spanish at Explorando las Ciencias June 13, 2012 Explorando las Ciencias, a popular Spanish-language science outreach event, will take place from 2 to 10 p.m. on Friday, June 22, at Warner Park in the Community Recreation Center and shelter at Warner Park, 1625 Northport Drive, and with the help of “Amigos en Azul,” a Madison police organization aimed at building partnerships in the city’s Hispanic community.
• Probe seeking life on Saturn’s moon earns student team a spot at international space conference June 13, 2012 Somewhere beneath as much as 30 miles of ice on the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, extraterrestrial life could be waiting to be discovered under a subglacial ocean. And a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering mechanics and astronautics students want to be the people who find it. For their senior design course, Alex Gonring, Capri Pearson, Samantha Robinson, Jake Rohrig and Tyler Van Fossen designed a mission that would take a probe from Earth to deep below Enceladus’ icy surface, where an array of science instruments would look for carbon-based life.
• “Science is Fun Summer Extravaganza” scheduled with noted science educator June 12, 2012 Chemistry professor Bassam Shakhashiri, whose “Science is Fun” demonstrations have been a tradition in Madison for 42 years, will present a “Summer Extravaganza” on campus June 25.
• Red-tailed hawks go from egg to flight June 12, 2012 On the afternoon of June 7 — about seven weeks and more than a million prying eyes after it hatched — the last red-tailed hawk chick raised on a Weeks Hall window ledge threw caution to the wind and flapped away from home.
• Wisconsin team reveals way to treat drug-resistant brain tumor cells June 4, 2012 New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains why the incurable brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is highly resistant to current chemotherapies.