For children living in the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, playing an innocent game of tag in the street often entails something distinctly unpleasant — dodging […]

To begin to understand the outsized potential and sheer weirdness of yeast, it helps to consider the genetics behind one of the world’s most successful […]

The body makes it seem so simple. You take a bite of supper, and the black-box machinery of metabolism hums into life, transforming food into fuel […]

In a high carbon dioxide world, the trees would come out ahead. Except for the munching bugs. A new study published on March 2, 2015 […]

In April 2011, James Bockheim led a small team of researchers to a rocky spit of land called Cierva Point, a habitat protected by the […]

In 2014, the total net farm income in Wisconsin reached an all-time high of more than $4 billion, but agricultural economics experts at the University […]

Stable, frozen ground has long been recognized a logger’s friend, capable of supporting equipment and trucks in marshy or soggy forests. Now, a comprehensive look […]

Tim Van Deelen, a UW-Madison professor of wildlife ecology, specializes in the management of large mammals, including population estimation and dynamics, hunting, interaction of deer […]

In any other classroom, mention of planting “Three Sisters” might cause confusion. But in Becky Nutt’s science class at Oneida Nation High School, located on […]

Here is an idea worth following: “share” for tenure; “like” to get cited. Academic researchers are turning to social media more and more, according to […]