Science

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.

Intense storms and flooding have sent runoff surging into a shallow bay of Lake Superior in the last decade, and a new study finds runoff is the largest driver of phosphorus concentrations there that can lead to algae blooms. But unlike other areas on the Great Lakes, the Chequamegon Bay near Ashland hasn’t faced any…

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say people with clinical depression could potentially be helped by treatment involving psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.

Sam Parnia, an intensive care physician at the NYU School of Medicine, believes we’re on the cusp of major scientific advances that will transform end-of-life medical care. He’s one of the world’s leading experts in resuscitation medicine and the author of “Lucid Dying.” He spoke with Steve Paulson for “To The Best of Our Knowledge.”

Author Chris Nashawaty talks with WPR’s “BETA” about how this moment may have been both a historical turning point in Hollywood history and an unfortunate epicenter to our current IP-driven stasis at the box office.

More than a dozen community members voiced their opinions and concerns at a public hearing last week after the UW-Oshkosh Fox Cities Board of Trustees approved an appraisal of its on-campus buildings.

Researchers postulated that a lack of purpose and personal growth might precede mild cognitive impairment and, therefore, Alzheimer’s.

The Wisconsin Historical Society is planning additional research. In the meantime, all but two of the boats are consider too fragile to remove from the lake.

A pair of Wisconsin kidney specialists say wait times for organ transplants could improve in the U.S after a Boston hospital transplants a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human.

People young and old stretched out on the lawn looking up as the moon inched more and more in front of the sun.