Beyond the medical issues, behavior, politics, economics, ideology and culture have all played a role in fostering "a perfect ecology" for the AIDS pandemic, one that will require more than just medicine to control.
Confirming what many have long suspected, scientists have found that male monkeys of two different species get heavier when their mates are pregnant. The roughly 10 percent gain in male girth occurs in common marmosets and cotton-top tamarins, both squirrel-sized primates known for their monogamous lifestyles and good parenting.
Digging in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in Mexico, archaeologists have found what they believe are the oldest remains of slaves brought from Africa to the New World. The remains date between the late-16th century and the mid-17th century.
An international team of scientists has coaxed a self-assembling material into forming never-before-seen, three-dimensional nanoscale structures, with potential applications ranging from catalysis and chemical separation to semiconductor manufacturing.
Students in science often joke that finding a good research advisor can be almost as tricky as finding the perfect spouse. UW-Madison has a project in place that helps maximize the student-mentor relationship "” especially in the sciences, where such partnerships can make or break careers.
It wasn't publicized other than by word of mouth, and still the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine was overwhelmed with requests. Since 1998, the school's oncology department has been producing an anti-cancer vaccine for dogs diagnosed with melanoma.
Much is known about the genes and inner workings of flu viruses. Yet how the microbe organizes its genetic contents to seed future generations of viruses has remained an enduring mystery of biology. Now that puzzle has been resolved.
About 30 undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will get a ... taste ... of how cultures spread through one of the world's most potent and long-lived mythic creatures: the vampire.
Stereotypes about who will use online support groups are wrong, according to research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The researchers found that age, income and education did not predict participation, although minorities were not as active as other users.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison team has taken a small but crucial step forward in the ongoing fight against retinal degeneration. Working with fruit flies, the scientists have discovered that a mutation in a common gene called calnexin can derail the light-processing activity of cells.
Toni M. Whited, an associate professor of finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, has won the top award for co-authoring the best paper published on corporate finance in the Journal of Finance.
Weather lovers have a new tool at hand to obtain weather information on demand through a PDA-friendly weather Web service created by Russ Dengel at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has authored a book available this month that explores evidence of a 50-year legacy of U.S. government-sponsored forms of psychological torture.
Ants that tend and harvest gardens of fungus have a secret weapon against the parasites that invade their crops: antibiotic-producing bacteria that the insects harbor on their bodies.
Scientists have developed a precisely defined stem cell culture system free of animal cells and used it to derived two new human embryonic stem cell lines.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison physics team reports on research into using a new radiotherapy technique for fighting glioblastoma with the element gadolinium "” an approach that may lead to less invasive treatment and possibly a cure for the fatal disease.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists suggests that a branch-by-branch account of animal relationships over a vast expanse of time is difficult to reconstruct because early animal evolution occurred in bunches.
Working with heart attack-stricken mice, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists has shown that embryonic stem cells may one day live up to their clinical promise.
Gregg Mitman, professor of the history of science and medical history at UW-Madison, says the King Kong story still resonates as an epic metaphor of nature vs. civilization. Mitman says that the first King Kong film was inspired by an actual scientific expedition.
UW-Madison scientists have found a new way to sneak drugs past the blood-brain barrier by engineering and implanting progenitor brain cells derived from stem cells to produce and deliver a critical growth factor that has already shown clinical promise for treating Parkinson's disease.
A food safety researcher has developed two promising devices that harness cold plasma-a state of matter similar to a chemically and electrically reactive gas-to kill food-borne pathogens. The innovative devices are particularly suited for eventual use in industrial settings, such as food-processing plants.
A UW-Madison English professor is exploring a particular form of subversion "” the political cartoon "” and how this universal form has a unique legacy in English-speaking African countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Working with mice, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed the basis for a therapeutic strategy that could provide hope for children afflicted with Krabbe's disease, a fatal nervous system disorder.
As global populations swell, farmers are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. As a result, agricultural activity now dominates more than a third of the Earth's landscape and has emerged as one of the central forces of global environmental change.
Working with computer-generated simulations, a UW-Madison scientist found that in the absence of snow cover, global temperatures would likely spike by about eight-tenths of a degree Celsius. That increase represents as much as a third of the warming that climate change experts have predicted, should levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases double.
Atmospheric scientists "” Earth's professional cloud-gazers "” have learned a great deal about clouds over the decades, particularly with the advent of satellites during the 1960s and 70s.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's nationally influential PEOPLE program, which has helped prepare hundreds of Wisconsin students of color for college admission, is now reaching into the elementary grades to help a new generation look to the future.
Use of the Internet as a resource and a forum strongly influences participation in civic affairs, often more than traditional media and even face-to-face communication, according to a study.
The absence of a loving caregiver in the earliest years of life could sway the normal activity of two hormones - vasopressin and oxytocin - that play an essential role in the ability to form healthy social bonds and emotional intimacy.
In a synthesis report, a team of health and climate scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the World Health Organization has shown that the growing health impacts of climate change affect different regions in markedly different ways.
For the first time, scientists have obtained a detailed map of one of biology's most important light detectors, a protein found in many species across life's plant, fungal, and bacterial kingdoms.
UW-Madison historian Jeremi Suri has parlayed archival research and nearly a dozen meetings with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger into what may ultimately become the definitive scholarly analysis of Kissinger's controversial legacy.
On Nov. 10, 1975, Lake Superior swallowed the Edmund Fitzgerald, along with her 29 crewmembers and cargo of almost 26,000 tons of ore. Thirty years later, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have built a simulation of the storm using the latest forecast technology.
More than 80 years ago, two University of Wisconsin-Madison biologists opened a rustic research outpost on Trout Lake, deep in the heart of Wisconsin's pristine northern lake region. Research today focuses on the increasing developmental pressures that threaten what people cherish most about recreational lakes.
Thanks to a new technique to more efficiently produce the disarmed viruses that are the seed stock for making flu vaccine in large quantities, life-saving inoculations needed to fight an influenza pandemic may be available more readily than before.
Hoping to reduce the nation's growing inventory of stored spent nuclear fuel, a group of nuclear engineering faculty, scientists and students will develop innovative nuclear fuel cycles that will recycle and dispose of this high-level radioactive material.
White-tailed deer, it seems, are homebodies. That is the upshot of an intensive study of the traveling behaviors of 173 radio-collared white-tailed deer in south central Wisconsin.
Anthropologist Susan Hutchinson's philosophy guides not only how she teaches, but how she lives her life. For 25 years, Hutchinson has been involved in the southern Sudan as an anthropologist and human rights activist "” and currently leads a non-profit effort to establish schools in the Sudan's neediest regions.
Students in the Applied Security Analysis Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business have been authorized to manage more than $40 million in fixed-income securities for the University of Wisconsin System.
One of the isomers of conjugated linoleic acid, a group of fatty acids found in milk, is a natural regulator of the COX-2 protein, which plays a significant role in inflammatory disease such as arthritis and cancer, according to a study.
More than 1.5 million drivers nationwide last year collided with deer on roadways around the country, and the costs related to this growing problem total more than $1 billion each year. On Oct. 24-25 researchers will meet to present findings and set a strategic agenda for deer-vehicle crash research.
Jeffrey Lewis has seen it many times in his elementary classroom case studies: Two African-American boys with essentially the same ability levels, the same desire to learn and the same socio-economic profile who experience dramatically different results in the classroom.
A new report synthesizes the latest research on what works in preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency. The report may serve as a national model in prioritizing the most innovative, scientific and cost-effective youth policies and programs.
The juice of the pomegranate, say researchers at University of Wisconsin Medical School, shows major promise to combat prostate cancer - the most common invasive cancer and the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men.
Vibrantly colored creatures from the depths of the South Pacific Ocean harbor toxins that potentially can act as powerful anti-cancer drugs, according to research findings from University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemists and their Italian colleagues.
As Americans turn a cold shoulder to politics and civic involvement, a group of 19 leading political scientists - including the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Katherine Cramer Walsh - have recommended a package of reforms to improve democracy and heighten civic involvement.
A sweeping look at jokes that lampoon lawyers and the tensions between Americans' respect for law and disdain for attorneys is the focus of "Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture," a new book by University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School emeritus professor Marc Galanter.
Even the subtlest hints of anger or hostility in their environment sets physically abused children on prolonged 'alert', even if a conflict has nothing to do with them. The tendency to stay attentive of nearby discord is probably a natural form of self-preservation in children who routinely face aggression.
As Hurricane Ophelia is set to make landfall on the North Carolina coast on Wednesday or Thursday, analysis techniques developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tropical Cyclones group in the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies are helping to predict the anticipated path of the storm.
If you came of age at any point in the 20th century, you were part of a profound change in the way that Americans learn to read and write, according to a literacy researcher. Deborah Brandt is in the process of studying the ways that the American workplace is changing the meaning of literacy and the values associated with it.
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