Category: Features
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Posted on November 4, 2009
Root Lessons
In the classroom, Bruce Allison delivers the tools of the trade—and a message about our connection with trees.
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The Evolution is On
A beetle’s newfound abilities remind us that life is always adapting to overcome our best strategies. How the eternal struggle for survival changes the way we farm.
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Posted on October 23, 2009
Vintage Wisconsin
Wine is booming in the land of beer and cheese. Growers are hoping that CALS research on Wisconsin-friendly grapes can help uncork the industry’s potential.
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Posted on October 21, 2009
No Leaf Unturned
They are farmers, doctors and amazingly adept traffic engineers. The tropical ants that Cameron Currie studies have been practicing the good life for millions of years. What do they know that we don’t?
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Posted on July 13, 2009
The Drugs Start Here
With the world’s supply of antibiotics growing old and ineffective, academic researchers are leading the way in developing the next generation of microbe fighters.
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Posted on July 8, 2009
Invisible Hands
In rural Wisconsin, Latino immigrants are the unseen labor that keeps the dairy industry running. Researchers and farmers are coming together to pull the veil off this vital, but fragile, workforce.
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Posted on July 6, 2009
Who’ll Stop the Rain?
Bigger storms and wider development are pushing a surge of storm water into places like UW-Madison’s Arboretum. CALS scientists say it will take a community effort to stem the tide.
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Posted on July 1, 2009
The Dark Night
Wisconsin’s top bat man lives like his subjects.
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Posted on March 2, 2009
To Kill a Wolf
As brushes with wolves rise, wildlife experts weigh whether the best way to preserve wolves could include hunting them.
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Posted on February 27, 2009
Back-End Solutions
No way around it: Dairy farming means putting up with a lot of crap. But what if dairy’s biggest headache became its most reliable asset? It’s happening on one Wisconsin farm.
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Going to Extremes
Extremeophilic microbes have learned how to deal with
near-boiling temperatures and other brutal conditions. To microbiologists, that makes
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Five things everyone should know about … Probiotics
Do probiotics really work? A former skeptic weighs in.