Every student of basic biology learns that mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell – little factories turning oxygen and food into energy. But when […]

On Wednesday, Aug. 10 the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will celebrate UW-Madison Day at the Wisconsin State Fair. Along with Bucky Badger, […]

Wisconsin’s larger dairy operations tended to fare better than the state’s small farms in a UW-Madison study of milk quality, although all of the state’s […]

The School of Human Ecology building project on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus attracted numerous visitors this week, as contractor J.P. Cullen & Sons used […]

For thousands of years, bakers and brewers have relied on yeast to convert sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Yet, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers eager […]

1. They cannot leap tall buildings in a single bound. Nor will they flatten your tummy, cleanse your colon, boost your immune system or increase […]

The continued growth of cropland and loss of natural habitat have increasingly simplified agricultural landscapes in the Midwest. A Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) […]

The mosquitoes are back, the Japanese beetles are starting to devour the 300 species of plants they call “food,” and a flock of invasive insects […]

With a long tradition of exploration of medicine and biology, and a research budget that has passed $1 billion, University of Wisconsin-Madison builds on a […]

Patty Loew, a CALS professor of life sciences communication, recently traveled to Mozambique to train community-based journalists in a number of rural villages. Loew is […]