Years before that french fry landed on your plate, the plant that would eventually give rise to the spud your fry was cut from was […]

On a mild spring day in 1980, a handful of men gathered on the sprawling lawn of England’s Windsor Castle, there to do a little […]

Above photo: Hongjie Li, a UW-Madison postdoctoral researcher, was the first to observe close-up the symbiotic system that unites termites with the fungus Termitomyces. Photo: […]

Microbiologist Jan Peter van Pijkeren looks at probiotics — those microbes thought to provide health benefits in our bodies — as more than just friendly […]

Above photo: Isomark CEO Joe Kremer demonstrates the steps needed to measure carbon isotopes in a specimen container in Isomark’s instrument. Isomark is a spinoff […]

It didn’t take the predators long to adapt. At first they were too slow and noisy and easy for the prey to spot.  But they […]

Bacteria have developed an uncountable number of chemistries, lifestyles, attacks and defenses through 2.5 billion years of evolution. One of the most impressive defenses is […]

Life Sciences Communication Professor Emeritus Larry Meiller will join a prestigious group of state voices in the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Meiller hosts The Larry Meiller […]

A spooky silence pervaded a classroom at Babcock Hall on the UW–Madison campus Feb. 8 as a couple dozen students focused with laser-like intensity on […]

There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of these, transcription and translation, allow the genetic information stored […]