Massive Magellanic Cloud Halo Discovery Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way
The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies in its orbit, and the two largest are known as the…
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Solar Flow Battery: Single Device Generates, Stores and Redelivers Renewable Electricity From the Sun
Chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their collaborators have created a highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery, a way to generate, store and…
New Understanding of Ceramic Materials May Reveal Ways to Improve Solar Panels, Superconductors, and Biomedical Implants
When most people think of ceramics, they might envision their favorite mug or a flowerpot. But modern technology is full of advanced ceramics, from silicon…
First Optical Measurements of Milky Way’s Mysterious Fermi Bubbles
Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper telescope, astronomers have for the first time measured the Fermi Bubbles in the visible light spectrum. The Fermi Bubbles are…
Study Confirms Cats Can Become Infected With COVID-19
In a study published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in the U.S. and Japan report that in the laboratory, cats…
Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger According to Analysis of Long-Term Satellite Imagery
In almost every region of the world where hurricanes form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger. That is according to a new study by…
The Solar Wind Is Hotter Than Expected – Research With Mirror Machine May Help Explain Why
When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide forms ice crystals around the nozzle, providing a visual example of the physics principle that…
Crystal-Stacking Process Opens Up “Nearly Limitless Possibilities” for New Materials That Drive Future Technologies
The magnetic, conductive and optical properties of complex oxides make them key to components of next-generation electronics used for data storage, sensing, energy technologies, biomedical…
New Ultrathin Coating Uses Trickery to Hide Temperature Changes From Infrared Cameras
An ultrathin coating developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers upends a ubiquitous physics phenomenon of materials related to thermal radiation: The hotter an object gets,…
Lifelike Chemistry Created by Pioneering Research on Origin of Life
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have cultivated lifelike chemical reactions while pioneering a new strategy for studying the origin of life. The work is far from…
Invasive Species to Blame for High Mercury Concentrations in Great Lakes Fish
According to a new study published yesterday (November 4, 2019) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 40 years of reduced mercury use,…
Bald Eagles Across America Infected by Newly Discovered Virus
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown virus infecting nearly a third of America’s bald eagle population. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the U.S. Geological…
Reversing Baldness by Wearing a Hat – New Low-Cost Hair Growth Technology
Few things on earth strike fear into the hearts of men more profoundly than hair loss. But reversing baldness could someday be as easy as…
Revolutionary New Discovery on Metal Malleability
For nearly 100 years, scientists thought they understood everything there was to know about how metals bend. They were wrong. Materials science and engineering researchers…
The Clouds of Venus Could Have Conditions Conducive to Microbial Life
In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned over all sorts of rocks. Mars, for example, has geological features that suggest it once had…
Scientists Identify Source of Galaxy-Sized Stream of Gas
A cloud of gas 300,000 light-years long is arching around the Milky Way, shunted away from two dwarf galaxies orbiting our own. For decades, astronomers…
Ancient Microorganisms Provide Strong Evidence of Life in the Universe
A new analysis of the oldest known fossil microorganisms provides strong evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in the universe is common….
New Model Sheds Light on Turbulence in Astrophysical Plasmas
Plasmas, gas-like collections of ions and electrons, make up an estimated 99 percent of the visible matter in the universe, including the sun, the stars,…