Do you know which is the most abundant organic compound on earth?

Children are packing on pounds during a season once associated with outdoor activity and exercise. Addressing that problem means confronting a number of factors that are contributing to poor health in our children.

Climate change is fueling the biggest outbreak ever of tree-killing bark beetles. The insects are decimating conifer forests from Alaska to Arizona—and raising concerns that they could reach the Upper Midwest.

Wisconsin’s artisan cheese renaissance may be a miracle, but it’s no accident. Government, academia and nonprofits all have had a hand in the market’s delectable bloom.

Jiming Jiang is unlocking the secrets of the centromere, an overlooked region of DNA that holds the key to chromosome engineering—and a new, possibly safer approach to gene therapy

From CALS Interim Dean William F. Tracy

Do you know which cucurbita species make the best pumpkin pie?

The dairy industry has spent a century searching for the perfect traits in a milk cow. Advances in genetics are getting us closer than ever – and changing our idea of perfect in the process.

Demographers see a trend in rural Wisconsin that could begin to reverse decades of population decline. But will jobs follow?

Forty years after beating malaria as a child, CALS entomologist Que Lan is still battling the disease. And she’s discovered a genetic weakness in malaria-carrying mosquitoes that may finally give us the upper hand.

New dairy policy expert Mark Stephenson says Wisconsin still earns the title of America’s Dairyland by making great milk – and listening to the consumer.

Meat crafter program promotes artisanship in meat.