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A Sunny Future: WARF Project is Changing Solar Energy
Solar energy is the way of the future — powering our homes, businesses and even our cars. This sustainable, renewable energy source is being studied extensively at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in May of …
From virtual to reality: Novel material identified by computers makes fuel cells more efficient
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists have shown that a material they discovered via advanced computational simulation can, in real life, improve the performance of electrodes in solid oxide fuel cells. While the …
Chamber announces Pressure Chamber finalists
The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce announced the five finalists competing in this year’s Pressure Chamber startup initiative, set for Tuesday, Aug. 16, at the Majestic Theatre during Forward Fest, a technology and entrepreneurship festival. …
Signal boost: Advance enables hyper-sensitive sensors
A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan University has developed a new accelerometer that can take extraordinarily precise measurements. The advance opens the door to new sensors that are hyper-sensitive to …
Brain imaging reveals how mindfulness program boosts pain regulation
Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds has isolated the changes in pain-related brain activity that follow mindfulness training — pointing a way toward more targeted and precise pain treatment. The study, …
New understanding of ‘superantigens’ could lead to improved staph infection treatments
The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus has long been known to cause infections in humans, ranging from mild skin infections to pneumonia to more serious infections of the heart. In high-income countries, it’s the leading cause of …
Hopping atoms help predict how liquid silica cools into good glass
Despite millennia of glass making, the physics of what happens when silica sand is melted and cooled is still something of a mystery to researchers. Now, in a groundbreaking window into what happens on a …
Ashton lab spinoff safeguards developing brain, spinal cord from toxic threats
Amid his usual day-to-day of meeting with students, writing research papers and grant proposals, and overseeing experiments in a productive lab at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Randolph Ashton …
The whole story: Promising thin film growth technique is the result of microscopic holes
Materials researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have revealed some of the atomic-scale mechanisms behind remote epitaxy, an emerging method for synthesizing extremely thin films and membranes—and the process is very different from what many …