In the contest to be named the next chancellor at UW-Madison, Rebecca Blank is an outsider in more ways than one. Of the four finalists to replace John Wiley as leader of Wisconsin's flagship university, Blank is the only one who has never spent at least

Whoever penned the old adage "a watched pot never boils" surely never tried to heat up water in a pot lined with copper nanorods. A new study from researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that by adding an invisible layer of the nanomateria

During a 1960s interview with Voice of America, Marion Stoddart, a legendary environmentalist, introduced herself as a housewife from Groton. She wanted people to know that her profession or town boundaries didn't matter for her initiative to clean up th

Charles Taylor, a 76-year-old McGill professor and one of the co-chairmen of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission, has won the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. The prize, which is often referred to as the "Japanese Nobel", consists of a gold medal and 50 m

The mysterious death of patients around the world following a routine dosage of the common blood thinner, heparin, sent researchers on a frantic search to uncover what could make the standard drug so toxic. A researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute