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Science & Technology

The Robots Keep Rolling

It’s a bot’s world: in April, as Wisconsin adapted to the Safer at Home order, the UW’s food delivery robots kept running, taking meals from the Gordon Avenue Market to students who remained in the residence halls. Here, a line of the robots waits to cross West Johnson Street.

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A Pioneer’s Perseverance

Born in war-torn Hong Kong to a prominent but absent father and his sixth concubine, UW physicist Sau Lan Wu has overcome stunning obstacles on her path to three major scientific discoveries.

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Lost in Space

It’s getting mighty crowded in space as debris from satellites, labs, and other things shot into Earth’s orbit degrade over time and threaten to fall back to where they came from.

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The Next Dimension

Sorbetto/ISTOCK 3D printing seems like science fiction come to life. “It’s kind of Star Trek–like,” says Dan Thoma MS’88, PhD’92, director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering, who has researched the technology for 25 years. Remember when Captain Picard commanded the replicator on the…

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Stem Cells at 20

It’s been two decades since the first human embryonic stem cell lines were derived at UW–Madison. What effect has the discovery had on scientific research and human health?

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A Search for Simple Life

Adam Steltzner PhD’99 just wanted a regular job, so he became an engineer — eventually, one of NASA’s top engineers. Now he’s helping lead the search for life on Mars.