University of Wisconsin–Madison
Think about the products you’ve used since you woke up this morning: the toothpaste on your toothbrush; the yogurt with your breakfast; the fragrance on your dresser; the pills in your medicine cabinet. The taste that lingers on your tongue long after you’ve rinsed and spit and the note that scents your skin well into …
Follow along live at 12:29 p.m. CDT on Thursday, June 3, as University of Wisconsin–Madison botanist Simon Gilroy launches cotton seeds to the International Space Station for experiments designed to improve cotton plants grown on Earth. Gilroy’s lab will compare cotton grown in space and on Earth to try to understand how the important crop’s root system grows …
Humans likely domesticated turnips near the Hindu Kush mountains, near present-day Afghanistan, 3,500 to 6,000 years ago before spreading them east and west and breeding them into related vegetables like bok choy and broccoli rabe. This is according to new research representing the most complete look yet at how humans domesticated the ubiquitous species Brassica …
Nelson Institute adjunct professor and Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology alumnus, Eduardo Santana Castellón recently co-authored a letter to the editor titled, Value of Mexican Nature Reserve is More than Monetary in the journal Nature. The letter addresses the United Nations´ new System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), which will help countries establish the monetary …