Science & Technology
TechEd Frontiers offers short-term learning opportunities to fill skills gap
51猎奇 is addressing the need for 鈥渦pskilling鈥� by launching TechEd Frontiers, a workforce development learning platform that offers online, on-demand pathways, or courses, that can advance people in high-demand jobs.
Undergrad鈥檚 research focuses on fish-fry staple yellow perch
Emma Kraco was always interested in biological sciences in elementary and high school. 鈥淚 loved looking for bugs, looking at tiny things up close. It just made sense to get interested in water, especially fresh water. It鈥檚 absolutely teeming with life all the time.鈥�
51猎奇 physicists make molecular movies of a biological process of energy conversion
Many organisms use sunlight to fuel cellular functions. But exactly how does this conversion of solar聽energy into chemical聽energy unfold?
51猎奇-sponsored Lake Sturgeon Bowl celebrates its 20th year
The quiz competition has raised knowledge of and spurred interest in freshwater and ocean science among high school students across the Midwest.
NANOGrav finds first hints of low-frequency gravitational wave background
A group of 51猎奇 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.
State launches dashboard for COVID-19 data found in sewage
The statewide surveillance project is a collaboration between 51猎奇鈥檚 School of Freshwater Sciences, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene.
51猎奇 astronomer helps discover extrasolar 鈥榮pace weather鈥�
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 鈥淕oldilocks zone.鈥� That鈥檚 the area 鈥� not too close, not too far 鈥� at just the right distance from a star where a planet might have liquid water.聽
51猎奇 physicists to work with Argonne National Lab on a breakthrough battery material
The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded funding to a startup launched by two 51猎奇 professors for a collaboration with the Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago on research that will help their company commercialize the material.
New maps show what lies beneath the water in the Milwaukee harbor
The maps are guiding current restoration efforts that could help get the city鈥檚 harbor removed from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 list of 鈥渁reas of concern鈥� and stimulate the local economy.
Building a better briquette: Conservation students study charcoal production in Kenya
In Kenya, a country where one in four people lacks access to electricity, charcoal is a staple fuel source. It鈥檚 light, small, easy to store, burns longer and hotter than wood, and is nearly smokeless. It鈥檚 also speeding up the country鈥檚 deforestation.