For birds and other wildlife, winter is a time of resource scarcity. Extreme winter weather events such as a polar vortex can push some species […]

It’s December 2018. Karthik Anantharaman awakens at 6 a.m., afloat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He’s barely slept, adrenaline is flowing. There’s little time, and […]

Tom Brock, a pioneering microbiologist who redefined the bounds of life, passed away at his home in Madison in April from complications following a fall. […]

When you think of the Chicagoland area, wildlife might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But to Lizzy Hucker, a small suburb […]

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently produced a report about farmers’ attitudes toward nitrate contamination of ground water and the agricultural practices required to […]

Ecologists at CALS have found that carnivores living near people can get more than half of their diets from human food sources, a major lifestyle […]

1. Tardigrades are tiny, water-loving animals. They prefer wet environments, and as long as the conditions are right, they can be found all over the […]

Distant cousins of cultivated potato may hold the key to unlocking new sources of resistance to the tuber crop’s most devastating disease, late blight. That’s […]

Teri Allendorf applied for the Peace Corps in the early 1990s with an eye toward East Africa, where she was hoping to use her knowledge of […]

It’s a sweltering August day in 2019. The sun gilds the flowering prairies of southern Wisconsin. Entomology graduate student Skye Harnsberger and her research team park their pickup truck […]