Qatar’s reserves of oil and natural gas make it one of the richest countries in the world—except when it comes to water. The desert nation […]

The trolls are winning. Pick a story about some aspect of science, any story, scroll down to the blog comments and let the bashing begin: […]

1.  You will not suddenly develop migraines upon entry. Rather, a “tension zone” describes a geographic area that marks a change from one type of vegetation […]

Lofty red barns may be Wisconsin icons, but the real workhorse structure in agriculture today is the post-frame building. You can’t drive very far down […]

Using the meticulous phenological records of two iconic American naturalists, Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, scientists have demonstrated that native plants in the eastern […]

The Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research (CDR) has reached the target fundraising goal for its building project, the Campaign to Secure Wisconsin’s Dairy Future, which […]

A science-inclined audience and wide array of communications tools make the Internet an excellent opportunity for scientists hoping to share their research with the world. […]

Researchers have found that the organism that causes deadly white-nose syndrome persists in caves long after it has killed the bats in those caves. A […]

What do biofuels look like on the Wisconsin landscape? Some might think of corn or switchgrass. But what about that herd of cows? What you […]

It may sound unlikely. Certainly it sounds idyllic. But there’s a university course where professors may interrupt class to watch sturgeon swim by, and where […]