When Jay Flores isn’t climbing and leaping through obstacle courses to train for NBC’s American Ninja Warrior or traveling internationally to deliver energizing keynotes, he spends a lot of time…
Year in and year out, cement production is one of the biggest contributors to humanity’s carbon emissions. Making portland cement, the most frequently used cement around the world and a…
When spring comes around, freeing Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, from its annual deep freeze, Paul Block and his students study the season’s climate conditions to predict what summer has…
In the not-so-distant future, a city full of autonomous cars may have to weather a snowstorm. It’s a scenario that’s not unusual to places like Madison, but it presents a…
For a planet increasingly ravaged by the effects of climate change, removing carbon from the atmosphere could be part of a desperately needed turn in the right direction. Innovators worldwide…
As the climate changes, dangerous algal blooms become more common in our lakes, threatening not only humans, but entire freshwater ecosystems. Nimish Pujara, an assistant professor of civil and environmental…
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are paving the way for intelligent or autonomous vehicles to communicate with the very infrastructure that lines our roadways. The Traffic Operations and Safety (TOPS) Laboratory…
The world’s largest source of fresh water, the Great Lakes, provides drinking water to more than 40 million people in the United States and Canada. In the first study of…
The city of Racine, Wisconsin, has a new shuttle that doesn’t necessarily need a driver. Dubbed the “Badger,” the new shuttle is a flashy example of technological advances that have…
A team from the University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of the top winners in the $5 million XPRIZE for Carbon Removal Student Competition. The contest is kickstarting projects that could…
The city of Rhinelander in northern Wisconsin has dangerous “forever chemicals” in its water. In fact, in 2019, the city shut down two of its water wells after it found…