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A cosmic mystery: Astronomers find object flashing in both radio waves and X-rays

By Becky LangMay 28, 2025Science & TechnologyScience
The image of the night sky shows swirls of purple, red, white and black, with white dots throughout.

A cosmic mystery: Astronomers find object flashing in both radio waves and X-rays

By Becky LangMay 28, 2025Science & TechnologyScience

UWM Professor David Kaplan and graduate student Akash Anumarlapudi are part of an international team that made a startling discovery about a new type of cosmic phenomenon.

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Planetarium hosting eclipse event, teaching 4,300 MPS students this spring

By Kathy QuirkApril 4, 2024Science & TechnologyScience

On Monday, the UWM planetarium will host a viewing party. And all this semester, it will host third-graders to learn about space and the solar system.

UWM alum works to uncover building blocks of the universe at SNOLAB

By Sarah VickeryNovember 30, 2023Science & TechnologyScience

Jodi Cooley is executive director of the huge underground research facility in Canada where scientists from around the world are working on experiments to help better understand the building blocks of the universe.

Citizen scientists can now also use their brains to help find new pulsars

By Laura OttoNovember 2, 2023Science & TechnologyScience

Citizen scientists have provided important help to astronomers exploring the heavens, and now they are invited to take a more hands-on role.

NASA scientist to discuss the women who made space discoveries on Sept. 26

By Laura OttoSeptember 19, 2023Science & TechnologyScience

Michelle Thaller will speak at UWM about how discoveries made by largely overlooked women led to our current understanding of dead stars, dark matter and the end of everything.

Scientists turn exotic stars into a galaxy-sized detector of gravitational waves

By Laura OttoJune 30, 2023Science & TechnologyScience

UWM researchers played an important role as part of an international team that made a scientific breakthrough that could tell us more than ever before about how the very early universe formed.

UWM scientists to contribute to first-of-its kind scientific imaging effort

By Laura OttoMarch 20, 2023Science & TechnologyScience

UWM is a longtime partner on a grant from the National Science Foundation that supports the development of the next generation of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) – novel instruments used to unmask phenomena that have never before been observed. Since 2009, XFELs have enabled scientists to examine how molecules in the human body and […]

For female yellowthroats, there’s more than one way to spot a winning mate

By Laura OttoFebruary 14, 2022Science & TechnologyScience

Two UWM researchers and a collaborator using cutting-edge techniques found a previously unclear link between characteristics in male songbirds that attract females, even as those signals differ in different geographical regions.

UWM physicist untangles how new superconductors work

By Laura OttoJanuary 2, 2022Science & TechnologyScience

The work of Daniel Agterberg and others could lead to improvements in the electrical grid and produce next-generation computers that can store far more information.

UWM researchers create a breakthrough tool for superfast molecular movies

By Laura OttoNovember 3, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

The new method, which captures action over just a few quadrillionths of a second, sheds light on how proteins work. The study was published in the journal Nature.

The telltale sign of violent events in space

By Laura OttoOctober 28, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

On this episode of Curious Campus, UWM’s new podcast about science, discovery and culture, we talk about gravitational waves with Sarah Vigeland, an assistant professor of physics at UW-Milwaukee, and Xavier Siemens, an associate professor of physics at Oregon State University.

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