Badger Engineers are cleared for takeoff. The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted to approve the creation of a new aerospace engineering major within the UW-Madison College of Engineering on Feb. 5, 2026….
The electrical properties of a neuron paint a picture of its development and function. A new user-friendly and accessible tool developed at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with the help of biomedical…
Compact heat exchangers could enable advanced nuclear reactors that are smaller, more efficient and more affordable—but a critical step in their adoption is verifying they can withstand the high temperatures and possibly high pressures in…
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new technology that can read a person’s pulse, blood pressure and oxygen saturation—remotely. Unlike other remote biometric sensors, this new “hyperspectral imaging” technology can operate in real-world, ambient-light…
While fantasies of mechanical maids aren’t yet reality, autonomous aides are emerging in a few areas of the modern world. Highlight reels from the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games, held in August 2025 in Beijing,…
Genetic mutations can yield antibiotic-resistant bacteria that stifle medical treatments, drive recurrence of disease and cause patient deaths. But there’s another, lesser-known way bacterial cells can thwart antibiotics—by essentially playing possum. “Persister” cells lie low…
In nuclear reactors, radiation causes defects to form inside materials, and this process can change those materials’ overall properties—usually for the worse. One approach for mitigating this radiation damage is heating those damaged materials. This…
The cells in our bodies move in groups during biological processes such as wound healing and tissue development—but because of resistance, or viscosity, those cells can’t just neatly glide past each other. Or can they?…
As the demand for nuclear energy increases, there are growing challenges for managing the spent nuclear fuel. The United States doesn’t yet have a licensed site for permanent storage, so the spent fuel is stored…
As spectacular as modern imaging can be in illuminating the tiniest aspects of life, some avenues of biology are still cloaked in darkness. Biological processes that happen over long periods of time—for example, exchanges of…
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have dramatically improved a semiconductor-based imaging system that makes near-infrared light visible to the naked eye. Near-infrared is the band of electromagnetic radiation between roughly 750 and 1,400 nanometers; it…