Scientists

Scientists find nanotech method for examining cells

The crystals, sometimes known as quantum dots, are tiny on the order of a handful of molecules. Researchers, including University of Wisconsin-Madison professors Dan van der...

UW computer scientists fighting computer virus "Cold War"

First came the virus. Then came the antivirus software. Ever since, virus programmers have been escalating their technology, trying to stay one step ahead of the computer security engi...

Scientists find way to make human collagen in lab

It is the most important structural protein in the body, reinforcing connective tissue, bones and teeth, and forming long, fibrous cables to strengthen tendons. Collagen forms sheets of tissue that support the skin and every internal organ. There is nothing in the body, in fac...

Wisconsin scientists to be recognized for innovative biofuel technology

On November 14, the two men wi...

UW-Madison scientists to mimic nature for newest cancer drugs

Now, with help from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a consortium of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists will embark on a five-year program of drug discovery by copying and improving nature's designs to develop new medic...

UW scientists study strange material with communications potential

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking another look at some long-held ideas about physics. For one, the Doppler effect. That's what scientists call the way sounds change as you speed toward and away from them. On a highway, for example, a jackhammer or a siren will sound higher pitched as you approach and lower after you drive past. But there's an invers...

UW space scientists use Keck telescope to study wild weather of Uranus

, scientists have gained an unpr...

UW computer scientists tout achievements and explain industry shortcomings

Innovations that have increased microprocessor performance, distribute...

Facing shortage of U.S. scientists, UW wants to boost math enrollment

As the United States faces a critical shortage of American scientists, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead an effort to attract more students to mathematics...

UW-Madison scientists find a key to cell division

MADISON - A cellular structure discovered 125 years ago and dismissed by many biologists as "cellular garbage" has been found to play a key role in the process of cytokinesis, or cell division, one of the most ancient and important of all biological phenomena. The discovery of the function of the dozens of proteins harbored within this structure - which are necessary for normal cell divi...

TIP/UW Scientists Provide Mars Rover Commentary

The robotic rover Spirit, which bounced to a near pinpoint landing inside a 4-billion-year-old Martian crater on Saturday (Jan. 3) after a seven-month flight, promises a trove of new data about the Red Planet, UW-Madison scientists say. John Valley, a UW-Madison professor of geology and geophysics who has conducted isotopic analyses of meteorites believed to be from Mars, expects the lat...