Until very recently, scholars have almost completely ignored Hispanics in films and television, and in popular culture in general. However, the growing presence of Latinas/os in the population has made them impossible for popular culture and its scholars to ignore, a UW-Madison researcher says.
An article sheds new light on the $130 billion smoking cessation plan proposed in the Department of Justice suit against the tobacco companies. The tobacco cessation plan was embroiled in controversy when Department of Justice attorneys reduced the amount proposed for the smoking cessation remedy.
With the death toll estimated in the thousands and New Orleans in a state of emergency, Hurricane Katrina's devastation will continue to have an enormous impact on the Deep South and the nation. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has experts.
Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountaintop near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronomers today released the first images captured by the Southern African Large Telescope, now the equal of the world's largest optical telescope and a prized window to the night skies of the southern hemisphere.
The mere mention of a stressful word like "wheeze" can activate two brain regions in asthmatics during an attack, and this brain activity may be associated with more severe asthma symptoms, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and collaborators.
Despite gains in the training of women scientists and the implementation of programs to help women overcome ingrained barriers, the career path of most women scientists at universities remains a difficult trek, fraught with roadblocks of bias, a sometimes chilly campus climate and the challenge of balancing family and work.
With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the most comprehensive structural analysis of our galaxy and have found tantalizing new evidence that the Milky Way is much different from your ordinary spiral galaxy.
America's national forests are beginning to resemble "islands" of green wilderness, increasingly trapped by an expanding sea of new houses, a forestry researcher reports at the 90th annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Montreal, Canada.
A consortium of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists is embarking on drug discovery techniques that copy and improve nature's designs for new medicines to treat colon, breast, cervical and pancreatic cancer.
Using a gene resurrected from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, recorded history's most lethal outbreak of infectious disease, scientists have found that a single gene may have been responsible for the devastating virulence of the virus.
A drug envisioned as a front-line defense for the next flu pandemic might have a genetic Achilles' heel that results in a drug-resistant influenza virus capable of infecting new human hosts, according to a study published this week.
Everyone knows not to get between a mother and her offspring. What makes these females unafraid when it comes to protecting their young may be low levels of a peptide, or small piece of protein, released in the brain that normally activates fear and anxiety.
A study points the way to solving two of life's seemingly eternal but unrelated mysteries: how birds that migrate thousands of miles every year accomplish the feat on very little sleep and what that ability means for humans who are seriously sleep-deprived or face significant sleep problems.
When off-the-rack messages about the dangers of drinking and driving were falling flat, officials in some rural Wisconsin communities gambled on a more unconventional tack advocated by a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor.
Phonics gives readers an edge, especially early on. This finding suggests that teaching young children the relationships between spellings and sounds not only makes learning to read easier, but also allows the flourishing of other skills that lead to faster, better reading.
A new technology will be a "third eye" during breast biopsies and can increase the chance for an accurate clinical diagnosis of breast cancer.
Doctors are failing to identify smoking status in about half of the adolescent patients seen, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study. Physicians addressed tobacco use even less with younger teens, missing an opportunity to intervene with those experimenting with tobacco use.
Thanks to a landmark study involving the UW Health Sports Medicine Center, physicians and coaches can evaluate the effectiveness of methods widely used to measure body composition and predict the minimum weight an athlete should maintain.
Researchers report a critical advance relating to one of the most fundamental and challenging problems of gene therapy: how to safely and effectively get therapeutic DNA inside cells.
Nearly 300 primate experts will gather for the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists. They will discuss more than 50 species of monkeys, apes and prosimians, and focus on endangered species conservation, biomedicine and animal care.
While the memory inside electronic devices may often be more reliable than that of humans, it, too, can worsen over time. Now a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Argonne National Laboratory may understand why.
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.
For children growing up poor, money isn't the only solution to overcoming the challenges of poverty. The genes and warm support received from parents also can buffer these children against many of the cognitive and behavioral problems for which poverty puts them at risk.
An article proposing a new method for measuring tobacco addiction suggests that one size does not fit all when it comes to motivations for smoking.
According to a study, 68 percent of smokers who were offered free cessation treatment at their regular clinics took advantage of the invitation. These results contradict previous research that suggested that smokers are not eager for intervention by their physicians.
The family of bacteria that causes tuberculosis and leprosy are notoriously sturdy. And although the diseases they cause have been held in check for the past 50 years by antibiotics, some strains are becoming increasingly resistant to existing therapy.
Bradley Whitford, a Wisconsin native and recipient of an Emmy Award for his role on NBC's "The West Wing," will address graduates during this spring's commencement weekend, May 14-16.
There is more to beauty than meets the stranger's eye, according to results from three studies examining the influence of non-physical traits on people's perception of physical attractiveness. People perceive physical appeal differently when they look at those they know versus strangers.
Almost 90 percent of college students who were daily smokers and 50 percent of occasional smokers were still smoking four years later, according to a study.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old shell mound. Constructed of cement-like floors, the mound, researchers say, is the oldest known platform intentionally built in Mesoamerica, and could change our understanding of the prehistoric people who once inhabited this area.
Researchers are putting the finishing touches on a new method for preserving and storing stem cells. The work promises to greatly amplify the number of cells that survive their enforced hibernation, that remain undifferentiated, and that are more readily available for research.
Viruses, often able to outsmart many of the drugs designed to defeat them, may have met their match, according to new research.
Working to help cell-phone users take advantage of the limitless minutes now included in many calling plans, engineers have developed a device that can significantly improve the quality of the transmitted signal on even less battery power.
An answer to the long-standing riddle of whether the Earth's ice ages occurred simultaneously in both the Southern and Northern hemispheres is emerging from the glacial deposits found in the high desert east of the Andes.
The flooded depths of an abandoned iron mine in southwestern Wisconsin have yielded yet another novelty: microbes that produce nanometer-scale crystals of extraordinary length.
An innovative new class is tapping the University's pipeline to the entertainment industry, bringing back alumni who have made a splash in Hollywood and on Broadway to share their experiences with students and the public.
Human neural stem cells, exposed in a lab dish to the steroid DHEA, exhibit a remarkable uptick in growth rates, suggesting that the hormone may play a role in helping the brain produce new cells.
Discovery may help researchers design vaccines that exploit the notorious mutability of HIV by training the immune system to attack the virus where it's most vulnerable.
The use of a synthetic drug derived from the saliva of vampire bats appears to extend the time window for treatment of acute ischemic strokes from the current three to nine hours after symptoms first appear, according to the results of a new international study.
The marmoset fMRI findings add strong weight to the mounting evidence that, when faced with a novel, sexually attractive and receptive female, males, even in monogamous species, exhibit highly organized, complex neural processes.
Researchers are working to develop a computer model that could predict how animals, living on a real landscape anywhere on Earth, would respond to specific changes in the environment.
Although people talk about politics routinely, political scientists know little about how these conversations work. A UW-Madison assistant professor concludes that political beliefs are inextricably linked to social identity.
Probing the last genomic frontier of higher organisms, an international team of scientists has succeeded in sequencing a little understood - but critical - genetic domain in rice.
In four months, when flower buds spring up from the ground, you may wonder how plants know it's time to bloom. This question has baffled plant biologists for years. Now, scientists have an answer.
A team has taken some of the first critical steps to putting stem cells to use to understand early development and maternal and fetal health.
As utility companies search for ways to avoid blackouts, like the one that shut down the northeastern corner of the United States last summer, one idea comes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A historical examination of amphibian deformities - frogs with extra legs growing out of the abdomen, for example - suggests that these aberrations are not a new phenomenon, but part of an emerging disease that could jeopardize the survival of these organisms.
A researcher has been studying a raft of fly mutants that, when exposed to minor temperature change, become completely paralyzed. The flies, which quickly recover when returned to room temperature, are now finding many uses in studies of human neurological disorders, drug discovery and insecticide development.
Like junkies without drugs, mice without running wheels crave what they lack, suggesting that some animals can develop an addiction for exercise.
As mountains of scrap tires continue to rise above the landscape, researchers have found an environmentally friendly use for them: grind them up and place the rubber bits beneath golf course greens.
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