Planetarium hosting eclipse event, teaching 4,300 MPS students this spring
Science
UWM astronomer helps find cosmic searchlight
New Fast Radio Burst discovery finds ‘missing matter’ in the universe MILWAUKEE _ An international team of scientists using a combination of radio and optical telescopes has for the first time managed to identify the location of a fast radio burst, allowing them to confirm the current cosmological model of the distribution of matter in […]
Doctoral student in right place at right time for gravity waves
UWM doctoral student Alex Urban was at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Louisiana at the historic moment when a gravitational wave was detected, confirming Einstein’s theory.
UWM’s big data helps find gravitational waves
UWM physicists provided computing power and analytical tools critical to the detection of gravitational waves, first predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years ago.
Renee Spiewak, international traveler, physics star
A home-schooled, first-generation college student, Renee Spiewak excelled at UWM, working side by side with professors on undergraduate research and winning National Science Foundation funding to study with scientists in Italy and Australia.
Will the roof be open or closed at Miller Park? UWM’s Innovative Weather knows
Innovative Weather at UWM gives internships to students and recent graduates of the Atmospheric Science program who help provide customized forecasts to regional clients like We Energies.
UWM study shows survival shapes birds’ plumage as much as need to attract mates
Natural selection – during migration, breeding in subtropical locales and care of young – is as powerful as sexual selection.
UWM team the first to “see” atomic changes in proteins with an X-ray laser
What made it possible were the ultra-short X-ray pulses of a Free Electron Laser (XFEL).
Getting sensitive with African clawed frogs
In David Heathcote’s lab, an African frog is helping uncover the details of how our human senses develop.
UWM researcher works to uncloak how memories affect attention
Cognitive neuroscientist Deborah Hannula wonders whether people’s attention can be diverted from a task if there is an object in sight that triggers a memory.
UWM physicists’ technology used in early malaria detection
State-of-the-art military hardware quickly identifies malaria parasites in blood samples as small as a single cell.