Water bears are an ancient group of microscopic animals known for their pudgy, ursine appearance and their uncanny ability to survive under extreme conditions. […]

  Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases and cause more than 700,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. […]

  Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute […]

  In Virus Research Recast, (Grow, spring 2022), Catherine Steffel described how, in the wake of a global pandemic, CALS scientists had pivoted their research […]

  The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), which is based at UW–Madison and is a hub for many CALS faculty, is one of four […]

  In Jake Brunkard’s lab in the Genetics-Biotechnology Center, you’ll find plants everywhere. The space is filled with grow carts containing tomatoes and Arabidopsis thaliana, […]

  We’ve all heard the warning: Don’t microwave your food in plastic containers. It’s one recommendation aimed at reducing exposure to bisphenol A, more commonly […]

  Every part of your life, from your birth to the places you’ve lived to the snack you just devoured, shapes the community of microbes […]

  Rutuja Gupte BSx’26 is an explorer by nature. She grew up near Mumbai, India, but she made the adventuresome decision to come to UW […]

  We often look to the smallest life-forms for help solving the biggest problems: Microbes can make foods and beverages, cure diseases, treat waste, and […]

  The association between obesity and infertility is a long-standing one. Some date the first written reference to this connection as early as 400 B.C., […]

  It’s a summer evening in early July, and the sun is sinking into Lake Mendota. Along University Bay, the windows of campus buildings bathe […]