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For these siblings, UW’s new tribal initiative is a financial boost, hopeful sign
In middle school, people often mistook Gavin and Mason White Eagle for twins — teachers sometimes had a…
28th IRENA Council Convenes in Abu Dhabi Ahead of COP29
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) convenes its 28th Council meeting in Abu Dhabi today, the last before the…
Making it easier to verify an AI model’s responses
By allowing users to clearly see data referenced by a large language model, this tool speeds manual validation…
How climate change will impact outdoor activities in the US
Using the concept of “outdoor days,” a study shows how global warming will affect people’s ability to work…
New study rewrites decades of medical misunderstanding of saturated fat and heart disease
ARN– Warnings against saturated fat on heart health need to be revisited as flaws were revealed in the…
Study: New molecules reversibly change with light and heat
The technology to rewrite data on compact discs was made possible by phase-change materials altered by the light…
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WARF, UW-Madison again rank in top 10 universities for U.S. patents
An annual report issued last month ranks the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private nonprofit foundation that manages intellectual property on behalf of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, as 7th among the world’s universities in U.S. patents issued in 2015.
The LHC MoEDAL experiment publishes its first paper on its search for magnetic monopoles
In a paper published by the journal JHEP, the MoEDAL experiment at CERN narrows the window of where to search for a hypothetical particle, the magnetic monopole.
Summer school shines
Young scientists from all over the world have gathered for their two-week summer school course at ESA’s ESRIN centre for Earth observation in Frascati, Italy.
First major database of non-native English
“English is the most used language on the Internet, with over 1 billion speakers,” says Yevgeni Berzak, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, who led the new…
