Academic department within UW–Madison's medical school, covering clinical care, teaching, and research in internal medicine.
Astronomers re-reading 1999 Hubble spectra of white dwarf HS 0209+0832 found unusually high niobium that may trace matter the star shed as it died. The team proposes that some of that debris built a gas giant hinted at in TESS data, though the planet remains a candidate.
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Francis Halzen, who leads the IceCube observatory at the South Pole, won the 2026 physics Nobel for detecting high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. The committee's citation names the observatory alongside the discovery, so the instrument in the Antarctic ice is part of what the prize honours.
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CGMNet, described in npj Computational Materials, learns from chemical fragments to predict properties of polyester, epoxy-resin and vitrimer formulations. Its authors argue fragments can carry one pretrained representation from small molecules into blends that a single repeat unit does not describe.
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Nobel physics laureate Francis Halzen said he proposed neural nets for physics data in 1991 and credits them with finally showing IceCube the Milky Way. His account links an idea he says took decades to mature to one of the Antarctic detector's best-known results.
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UW-Madison researchers linked higher blood levels of the gut-made compound ImP to faster cognitive decline in nearly 1,200 people. Evidence that ImP causes harm so far comes from mice, so lowering it to slow dementia is still an idea for the future.
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Snorkel AI's LibraryDesignBench puts the best agent-designed library run at 48.9, ahead of 46.6 for human-written production libraries. Because the score also pays for shorter downstream code, the lead measures how easily other agents could use each interface.
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Crimea lost a net 117 of every 1,000 publishing researchers to other countries after 2014, a study of Ukrainian affiliation records from 2009 to 2022 finds. Its authors argue that scholarly migration under armed conflict cannot be read simply as free career choice.
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Vatsan Raman's lab at UW-Madison trained an AI that engineered phages to infect bacteria up to a million times more effectively in lab tests. The Cell Systems work aims at phage therapies that could replace failing antibiotics.
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Qingyi Zhou and colleagues at UW-Madison optimized a nanostructure around a vacancy color center and report seven orders of magnitude less power for nonlinearity than conventional optical materials need. The work is simulation.
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A group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports in Physical Review X that a vertically aligned nanotube foam returns to a mechanical state it held before, with the record kept in nanoscale stick-slip friction.
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AAA had the U.S. diesel average at $6.05 a gallon on Friday, up about 60% from the $3.76 of late February, and a Missouri farmer burning 200 gallons a day for 30 days now faces roughly $36,300 in fuel for the combine alone.
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A larger-than-life Lydian figure lasted 2,500 years because Roman builders used it as paving. That makes the scarcity of monumental sculpture from this period a fact about reuse, not output.
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A phase-field plus active learning loop inverted the process-microstructure problem for hard drive media, and beat expert best guesses. The abstract is short on how the win was measured.
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A Science paper says grasses gained a second starch route and inherited a second lignin route, and that two mutations suffice to build the lignin bypass. The genes are not named in the public account.
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A review of 350 papers argues that cutting dietary protein extends healthspan. Physiologists say the human evidence for the over-65s, the sedentary and GLP-1 users runs the other way.
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