Will Cushman

Solar energy is cheaper, more efficient and more widely available than ever, but its viability was never assured. Technologies that enable the conversion of sunlight into usable electricity are the products of an uncoordinated, decades-long series of events that followed a circuitous and halting path

Before the widespread availability of electricity allowed Americans to cool food with the flip of a switch, they relied on iceboxes.

In 1989, a long simmering conflict over American Indian treaty rights helped prompt a landmark educational law in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin scientists are hopeful that a raccoon virus may help deliver North America's hibernating bats from potential extinction.