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Mercury levels in fish fluctuate along with water levels in lakes
Posted December 21, 2018
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Winter road salt may corrode plumbing and contaminate water for nearby well owners
Posted December 5, 2018
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Changing evangelical minds on climate change
Posted December 5, 2018
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Why is math cheaper than English? Understanding cost differences in higher eductation
Posted December 5, 2018
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Forget ‘needle in a haystack.’ Try finding an invasive species in a lake.
Posted December 5, 2018
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How Professors Ceded Their Authority
Posted December 5, 2018
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Climate Change Is Already Hurting U.S. Communities, Federal Report Says
Read the full report
Posted December 5, 2018
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Q&A: Escalating battle over Minnesota mine puts spotlight on studies of potential impacts
Posted December 5, 2018
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Some Good News, and a Hard Truth, About Science
Posted December 5, 2018
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‘Enough Is Enough’: Science, Too, Has a Problem With Harassment
Posted December 5, 2018
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Thank You, Professor!
Alumni give thanks to their favorite professors
Posted November 20, 2018
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UW–Madison physics professor receives Moore Inventor Fellowship
Posted November 20, 2018
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The kilogram is dead; long live the kilogram
From The Verge
From The New York Times
Posted November 14, 2018
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UW to fund science journalism fellowship for graduate student
Posted November 14, 2018
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The Chemists' War
One hundred years after the end of World War I, the Army Corps of Engineers is still cleaning up the relics of experiments that helped develop chemical weapons to counter the Germans’ gas attacks.
Posted November 14, 2018
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John Nichols: Tony Evers won as the Wisconsin Idea candidate
Posted November 14, 2018
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The Mysteries of Animal Movement
Posted November 7, 2018
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Rural America’s Own Private Flint: Polluted Water Too Dangerous to Drink
Posted November 5, 2018
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Colleges confront declining number of high school graduates: 'We’re not going to grow our way out of this'
Posted November 5, 2018
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Wintertime stress, nursing, and lead exposure in Neanderthal children
Posted November 5, 2018
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Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming
Posted November 5, 2018
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Kavli Prize-winning astrochemist looks back at her career probing chemical complexity in space
Leiden University’s Ewine van Dishoeck talks about building instruments for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the James Webb telescopes
2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
Posted October 23, 2018
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Memorial lecture honors late Wellesley resident,
shows off science's fun side
Posted October 15, 2018
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Leon Lederman, 96, Explorer (and Explainer) of the Subatomic World, Dies
Posted October 8, 2018
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Addressing our biggest challenges—and mysteries—at the Wisconsin Science Festival
Posted October 4, 2018
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Assigned Reading: Bassam Shakhashiri
Posted October 4, 2018
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Music and chemistry—what's the connection?
Posted September 11, 2018
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Susan Nitzke, professor emerita and former chair of nutritional sciences, dies at 71
Prof. Nitzke lent her expertise to several WISL programs, including our
University Summer Forum on Chemistry & Society,
and our Conversations in Science for Teachers series.
Posted August 30, 2018
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UW-Madison Marching Band director Michael Leckrone stepping down after 50 years
Prof. Leckrone has participated in the annual "Once Upon a Christmas Cheery, In the Lab of Shakhashiri" several times:
Watch the 2014 show online
See photos of 2009's 40th Anniversary show
Posted August 30, 2018
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The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin's Tree of Life
Posted August 14, 2018
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The Concussion Question: Ex-UW players find unconventional methods for improving brain health
Posted August 13, 2018
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Designing the Death of Plastic
Posted August 9, 2018
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What's ice cream, and why do we scream for it?
Posted July 26, 2018
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Forgotten Molecules
The fruits of an emeritus professor's 40-year career in biochemistry are contributing to the modern search for new medications
Posted July 25, 2018
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How to Get America on the Mediterranean Diet
Posted July 23, 2018
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Melting Away Myths
The University of Wisconsin at Madison is viewed by some in the state as elitist, expensive and liberal, so the university's alumni group is holding one-on-one discussions around the state -- offering ideas and ice cream.
Posted July 20, 2018
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Overlooked No More: Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Who Saw the Course of the Universe
Posted July 20, 2018
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Climate Change Is Killing the Cedars of Lebanon
Posted July 20, 2018
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How Conservatives Bet Big On Wisconsin and Won
Posted July 20, 2018
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Never Mind the Summer Heat: Earth is At Its Greatest Distance From the Sun
Posted July 9, 2018
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It's Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.
Posted July 9, 2018
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Francisco J. Ayala, Famed Biologist, Resigns After Sexual Harassment Inquiry
Posted July 9, 2018
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Must Science Conflict With Spirituality?
Posted June 28, 2018
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Kickstarter campaign launched for feature film 'The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks'
Posted June 28, 2018
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UW-Madison bids farewell to humble but storied Science House
Posted June 26, 2018
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10 years of Periodic Videos
Prof. Bassam Shakhashiri congratulates Prof. Martyn Poliakoff
on his neon anniversary!
Posted June 25, 2018
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Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain
Posted June 25, 2018
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Joe Parisi: Area Lake Flooding is Climate Change Issue That Should Catch Attention of State, National Naysayers
Posted June 25, 2018
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Stats In Brief: 2007-2008 College Graduates' Employment, Debt, and Enrollment in 2012
These findings are based on data from the second follow-up of the 2008 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:08/12), a nationally representative longitudinal survey of students who completed the requirements for a bachelor’s degree during the 2007–08 academic year.
Posted June 21, 2018
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'Science in Motion' takes chemistry on the road across Wisconsin
Posted June 15, 2018
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The Dangers of Belly Fat
Posted June 13, 2018
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Ask the Weather Guys:
If we stopped emitting carbon dioxide right now, would the Earth stop warming?
Posted June 6, 2018
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Overhaul of scientific incentives needed to fix Ph.D. system, report says
Posted June 6, 2018
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Five Rules of the College and Career Game
Posted May 17, 2018
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Scientists Need Stronger Public Engagement in 'Post-Truth' World, Says Former NOAA Administrator
On April 23, former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco delivered the 2018 James R. Mahoney Memorial Lecture on “Science in a Post-Truth World,” a topic on which she has spoken out in recent years.
Posted May 15, 2018
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How the Father of Computer Science Decoded Nature's Mysterious Patterns
Posted May 9, 2018
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A Study in Scarlet
University of Wisconsin biochemist Karl Paul Link's isolation of the powerful blood thinner (and rat poison) warfarin is an excellent example of The Wisconsin Idea in action.
Posted May 8, 2018
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Middleton High School Senior Natalie Asmus revives
Madison March for Science
Posted April 30, 2018
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A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story
Posted April 23, 2018
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Periodic Graphics: How is Plastic Recycled?
Posted April 19, 2018
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Chemists Celebrate Earth Week, American Chemical Society
Posted April 16, 2018
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High school students find new meaning in 1962 science-literature classic at UW program
Great World Texts Program Revisits "Silent Spring" and the Legacy of Rachel Carson
Posted April 12, 2018
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The Germs That Love Diet Soda
Posted April 9, 2018
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The Growing College Graduation Gap
Posted April 2, 2018
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The Opioid Epidemic: A State in Crisis
An interdisciplinary group of UW scholars, Randall Brown (Medical School), Susan Lederer (Medical History and Bioethics), and Amy Gilman (Chazen Museum of Art), come together to discuss the current opioid epidemic, which is making headlines nationally, in Wisconsin, and in Madison. Moderated by Steve Paulson.
Posted March 19, 2018
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'Free-range scientist' Steve Carpenter remains inspired, inspiring—even in retirement
Posted March 14, 2018
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Big Sugar Versus Your Body
Posted March 9, 2018
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A Celebrated Physicist with a Passion for Music
Posted March 9, 2018
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Former UW-Madison Chancellor Irving Shain dies at 92
Posted March 7, 2018
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What Poisons Are In Your Body?
Posted February 26, 2018
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Frederick Douglas' Fight Against Scientific Racism
Posted February 23, 2018
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A University of, by and for the People
Posted February 16, 2018
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A Call to Cut Back Online Addictions.
Pitted Against Just One More Click.
Posted February 6, 2018
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Universities Should Encourage Scientists to Speak Out
About Public Issues
Posted February 6, 2018
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Ask the Weather Guys:
How much water is in the atmosphere?
Posted February 5, 2018
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Employed and Engaged:
Career Outcomes of Our Ph.D. Graduates, 2000-2015
Posted February 5, 2018
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STEM Educators Can No Longer Be Apolitical
Posted February 5, 2018
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The Ph.D. Delusion
Posted February 5, 2018
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What's artificial snow, and how is it made?
Posted February 5, 2018
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Rapid Rise of China's STEM Workforce Charted by National Science Board Report
Posted February 2, 2018
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University of Wisconsin football players downplay warnings while proof of brain injury piles up
Posted January 30, 2018
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Doomsday clock is set at 2 minutes to midnight, closest since 1950s
Posted January 30, 2018
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Nobel Minds 2017
The 2017 Nobel Laureates met at the Grünewald Hall in the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm for the traditional round-table discussion and TV program 'Nobel Minds'. The discussion was hosted by the BBC's Zeinab Badawi.
Posted January 24, 2018
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Science & Engineering Indicators 2018
Posted January 23, 2018
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Climate Change is altering lakes and streams, study suggests
Posted January 12, 2018
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James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for
Interpreting Chemistry for the Public: Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
Posted January 11, 2018
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Tesla the car is a household name.
Long ago, so was Nikola Tesla.
Posted January 3, 2018
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