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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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UWM planetarium director and alum explore the fascination of Mars

By Kathy QuirkOctober 21, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

On the debut episode of Curious Campus, UWM’s new podcast about science, discovery and culture, we look at Mars exploration with guests Jean Creighton and Darian Dixon.

Mystery radio wave signal from the heart of our galaxy found

By Laura OttoOctober 12, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

An international team of astronomers that includes one from UWM has discovered unusual radio signals that fit no currently understood variable radio source and could suggest a new class of stellar object.

The love pad: UWM lab tests frog romance in unique ‘arena’

By Laura OttoSeptember 30, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

UWM researchers trying to untangle the mystery of the eastern gray tree frog mating rituals found it hard to study in the pond. So they built their own.

UWM researchers take a leading role in finding elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars

By Laura OttoJune 29, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

For the first time, researchers have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star. In fact, the scientists detected not one but two such events occurring just 10 days apart in January 2020.

Funding renewed for NANOGrav center, which includes UWM

By Laura OttoJune 21, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

An international team of astronomers, including several from UWM, have renewed funding from the National Science Foundation for their work in detecting and characterizing low-frequency gravitational waves, a transformational challenge in astrophysics.

UWM biologist named a 2021 UW System Regent Scholar

By Laura OttoApril 12, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

The honor recognizes Ava Udvadia’s research into the genetics that allow healing of nerve damage, along with her efforts to encourage undergraduates to participate in that work.

UWM physicists make molecular movies of a biological process of energy conversion

By Laura OttoMarch 23, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

Many organisms use sunlight to fuel cellular functions. But exactly how does this conversion of solar energy into chemical energy unfold?

NANOGrav finds first hints of low-frequency gravitational wave background

By UWM NewsJanuary 11, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

A group of UWM researchers is part of the collaboration of scientists that used 13 years of data to find what could be the first direct detection of low-frequency gravitational waves.

UWM astronomer helps discover extrasolar ‘space weather’

By Laura OttoDecember 9, 2020Science & TechnologyScience

If you wanted to look for life on planets around stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets, you would first locate the ones in the “Goldilocks zone.” That’s the area – not too close, not too far – at just the right distance from a star where a planet might have liquid water. 

UWM physicists to work with Argonne National Lab on a breakthrough battery material

By Laura OttoDecember 1, 2020Science & TechnologyScience

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded funding to a startup launched by two UWM professors for a collaboration with the Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago on research that will help their company commercialize the material.

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