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PhD student Chengyu Fang works in a clean room
July 16, 2025

New trapped-atom qubit technology translates to industry-ready quantum computing product

Engineers and physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a simplified but ingenious method for trapping atoms of different species to make quantum bits or qubits—the powerful alternatives to digital bits that give quantum…

Tsung-Wei Huang
July 11, 2025

Parallel programming system developed at UW-Madison set for global rollout in C++ update

Beginning in 2026, Taskflow—a powerful task-parallel programming system developed by a research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—will play an active role in shaping the future C++ standard. The tool will help ensure that the…

Illustration of nanocatalysts
July 10, 2025

In the future, finely tuned transforming catalysts could be more efficient energy converters

In 2022, a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, recorded real-time movies of extremely tiny nanocatalysts undergoing dramatic changes during carbon dioxide reduction reactions, which are an important step in making sustainable…

Customer inspects rings at jewelry store
June 25, 2025

For Wisconsin-based Jewelers Mutual, data science collaboration is extra insurance

Through a university collaboration that began some six years ago, a leading jewelry insurance provider is leveraging advanced data science and artificial intelligence tools to advance its business and benefit its customers. Jewelers Mutual Group…

Ashley Peper
June 23, 2025

Industrial engineer hopes optimization education will yield exponential dividends for future students

When Ashley Peper started to get serious about finding a career that would scratch her math itch, her teachers at Stevens Point Area Senior High floated the standard ideas: accountant or math teacher. “I don’t…

Conceptual design for Type One Energy's fusion plant
June 17, 2025

UW-Madison spinoff Type One Energy achieves milestone for fusion power plant

University of Wisconsin-Madison spinoff company Type One Energy has published a comprehensive and robust physics basis for a practical fusion pilot power plant. The advance is an important and promising milestone that brings fusion power…

Postdoctoral scholar Sujan Subedi
June 17, 2025

New wave: UW-Madison researchers are creating a path to high-performance terahertz technologies

Many of the technological advances of the last century are the result of researchers unlocking different types of electromagnetic radiation, the waves—like x-rays, microwaves and infrared radiation—that carry energy throughout the universe. There’s one bit…

deep-sea sponge
June 17, 2025

Researchers capture nanoparticle movements to forge new materials

Researchers can now observe the phonon dynamics and wave propagation in self-assembly of nanomaterials with unusual properties that rarely exist in nature. This advance will enable researchers to incorporate desired…

Students play an educational game that they created in the Engineering Sustainability: Linking Technology, Policy, Health and Economics course
June 5, 2025

In new engineering course, sustainability policy is debatable and alternative views are abundant

A new course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering will enable engineers to make a greater real-world impact by equipping them to navigate complex problems that don’t have clear solutions…

PhD student Fernando Acosta-Pérez stands in front of the emergency entrance at UW Hospital
May 30, 2025

Mathematical modeling helps hospitals efficiently assign patients to the right space

A hospital’s emergency department swells with patients, a chunk of whom will need to be admitted to the facility’s inpatient unit. But decision-makers in emergency care face a dilemma: When…