Natural Science

Geologists say the museum, founded on the UW-Oshkosh Fox Cities campus nearly 25 years ago, is unique in the country for telling the story of Wisconsin’s geological and mining history.

The Raptor Resource Project’s golden eagle research is tracing what the eagles do in their summering and wintering grounds.

This “time capsule” of 19th-century geological collecting includes about 55,000 fossils and 12,000 minerals from the area.

Wisconsin paleontologist Kenneth “Chris” Gass recently gave a new name to an ancient trilobite species. He says it’s an exciting time for paleontology in the state.

A small earthquake was recorded under Lake Michigan on Friday morning east of Sturgeon Bay.

At the time of peak overlap around 2 p.m., approximately 90 percent of the sun will be obscured by the moon in Kenosha.

For the first time in more than a decade, geologists recorded a small earthquake near Crandon on Sunday. The U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, recorded a 2.5 magnitude earthquake around […]

New research out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that pollution and biodiversity are factors that can change how vulnerable animals are to disease or parasites. Jess Hua, an associate […]

A calorie is not just a calorie. That’s the lesson University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers said they demonstrated in a new study where mice lost weight while eating more. The study, […]

As American and U.K. regulators approve the world’s first gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease, Wisconsin scientists are researching how to use the same technology to treat two eye diseases […]