Reid Magney of the Wisconsin Elections Commission discusses a media report indicating the states's voting infrastructure was hacked during the 2016 election, saying the sourcing may be old and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not revealed security breach.
In December 2018, an experimental vaccine for the Ebola virus, produced in Wisconsin, will head to Japan for human trials. UW-Madison pathologist Alhaji Njai explains this research and hopes for the potential of this vaccine.
Wisconsin is in the midst the worst flu season in years, and public health officials are working to stop the spread of the disease. Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene communicable disease division director Peter Shult discusses efforts to track the virus.
The recent cold weather in Wisconsin has been brutal, but what is its cause? UW-Madison atmospheric scientist Jonathan Martin breaks down why frigid conditions have stuck around in Wisconsin and what the East Coast is facing with a "bomb cyclone."
With deer hunting season underway, freelance journalist and UW-Madison lecturer Ron Seely discusses issues arising from chronic wasting disease a decade-and-a-half after it was first identified in Wisconsin.
It's been 10 years since a bat-killing fungus was first discovered in the northeastern United States. The white fungus and the disease it causes — white-nose syndrome — is now found in 31 states, including Wisconsin.
What happened in 2016 with purported Russian hacking on Wisconsin's elections infrastructure? Wisconsin Elections Commission spokesperson Reid Magney says hackers may have been looking for possible entrances to gain access to voter data.
