Fusion energy startup Realta Fusion, a University of Wisconsin-Madison partner, announced they are moving into the next phase of their plan to build nuclear fusion devices for real-world deployment. University of Wisconsin-Madison nuclear fusion startup …
Research
Fueling the future of brain health
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Nexus NeuroTech Ventures have awarded $100,000 in development funding to three innovative research projects aimed at transforming the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. Selected from a competitive pool …
Early success of AI-powered fire detection system is winning fans in firefighting community
NOAA unveils powerful convergence of AI and science with revolutionary Next-Generation Fire System technology Less than a year after being evaluated in NOAA’s Fire Weather Testbed, the automated satellite fire detection capability of the experimental …
BME students step forward to help teen with muscular dystrophy
Maggie Eggleston enjoys horseback riding, watching movies and reading mysteries—a fairly typical set of interests for a 16-year-old girl. But Maggie’s lived experience is anything but typical. Three years ago, she was diagnosed with facioscapulohumeral …
In Wisconsin, Great Lakes partners are powering the next manufacturing revolution
An aggressive push to advance fusion from university experiments into energy for the real world. A new group aims to tap experts in the Midwest and beyond to capture the momentum of fusion energy and …
UW biochemists engineered a poplar tree that produces a high-demand industrial chemical. It was a surprise discovery only made possible by sustained investment in research.
Brian Fox, the Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, tinkers with the way living things use chemistry to turn their own blueprints, DNA, into the processes that make a …
Realta Fusion targets commercial fusion energy production within next decade
Madison-based Realta Fusion has raised $36 million in a Series A investment round and is targeting the mid-2030s for commercial fusion energy production, WisBusiness reports. Several investors joined the round, including the Wisconsin Alumni Research …
Paridhi Gupta wins first-ever UW-Madison WiSys Quick Pitch competition
Paridhi Gupta, Luis McDougall, Serenity Her, and Jehona Zeneli were recognized for their undergraduate research at UW-Madison’s WiSys Quick Pitch competition on Wednesday, April 16. This year’s competition was the first one held on the …
Pursuing a vaccine to treat glioblastoma
Dr. Mahua Dey is an associate professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery and the director of the surgical neuro-oncology program in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She specializes in …
UW researchers developing app to easily assess home for accessibility improvements
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are hoping to make it easier to find ways to make your home more accessible — all from the palm of your hand. Professor Jung-Hye Shin, chair of UW’s …