An entomology research team aims to squash a grub that can single-handedly devour a young tree’s root system.

The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change. It could also be making some trees grow like crazy.

An article in Science documents a previously unknown symbiosis between ants and bacteria and provides insights into how leaf-cutter ants have dome to dominate the tropics.

This week, scientists are revealing the genetic instructions inside corn, one of the big three cereal crops. Corn, or maize, has one of the most complex sequences of DNA ever analyzed, says University of Wisconsin-Madison genomicist David Schwartz, who was one of more than 100 authors in the article in the journal Science.

Tomas Prolla is senior author of a new paper that looks at the genetic roots of this type of hearing loss, which is not due to noise exposure.

Since UW research stations grow crops to glean knowledge, the food they produce is a byproduct. Those who grow it are seeing that it gets put to good use.

Biochemistry professor Hazel Holden and Edgewood middle-school science teacher are working closely to connect the gap between middle-school science and groundbreaking research and get adolescents excited about chemistry before they reach high school.

Irwin Goldman, vice dean and associate dean for research in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has been named the college’s interim dean by Chancellor Biddy Martin.

When Kathy Glass isn’t lacing pepperoni with E. coli, she’s making contaminated cheeses and other deli meats, all in the name of protecting human health

Molly Jahn, dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), university officials announced today (Oct. 12).