News tagged with university of wisconsin madison

Study: Can nature's leading indicators presage environmental disaster?

Jan 05, 2009 | 3 / 5 (8) | 46

Economists use leading indicators — the drivers of economic performance - to take the temperature of the economy and predict the future.

Expectant brains help predict anxiety treatment success

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Jan 02, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

A network of emotion-regulating brain regions implicated in the pathological worry that can grip patients with anxiety disorders may also be useful for predicting the benefits of treatment.

Scientists isolate genes that made 1918 flu lethal

Biology /

Dec 29, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (11) | 5

By mixing and matching a contemporary flu virus with the "Spanish flu" — a virus that killed between 20 and 50 million people 90 years ago in history's most devastating outbreak of infectious disease — researchers have identified ...