University of Wisconsin Madison News

Massachusetts passed up a chance to be the home of a booming yogurt startup that was founded by two state residents.

Afternoon Update, sent weekday afternoons, keeps you up to date with breaking news and updates from later in the day.

Prosecutors say they will not file domestic-violence charges against George Zimmerman after his girlfriend said in a sworn statement she did not want to pursue the case.

You can learn a lot in the news business. I received a news release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison today that mentioned a 60-year-old music hit titled "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas."

International news supported the soy complex overnight. A surprising increase in forecast global soybean carryout on Tuesday's WASDE report undercut CBOT prices, but the soy markets rebounded modestly early this morning.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tops our list again, but the University of Michigan is on the march.

Women can all recite the downsides to aging: We need glasses to read, our waist is expanding in ways previously seen only during pregnancy , the wrinkles crop up daily with the gray hairs coming in close second.

Despite the rising cost of universities, undergraduate student loan debt at the University of Wisconsin remains less than the national, state and UW System averages for student debt.

Two charges against a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher have been dismissed after a plea of no contest to a third charge of disorderly conduct, according to state court records.

There's a large and growing body of evidence that psychological stress - the kind experienced by war orphans, caretakers of people with dementia, and men and women with post-traumatic stress disorder - can cause genetic damage.

This Thursday a coalition of student organizations, Students for Equitable Law Enforcement, is putting on an event to talk about the intersection of police policies and racial disparities from a student perspective.

Commonwealth makes yogurt for retailers - such as Wegmans, Costco and others - that private label it and under its own brand, Green Mountain Creamery.

Twenty years ago tonight, id Software uploaded Doom to an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completely changed the video gaming industry.

Students trying to get home for the holidays may soon have an easier time finding a ride, as a new mobile application seeks to connect students hoping to "ride-share" with the help of local entrepreneur group 100state.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports Dr. Rabin died in UW Hospital last Thursday after a brief illness, at the age of 97. The Madison Area Music Association is saddened with the recent passing of Dr. Marvin J Rabin.

Dec. 9, 2013 - MILWAUKEE -- This strange story takes place in the late '70s in the vast winter wilderness of Alaska, where a young army sergeant assumes command of a small maintenance team to recover a broken-down vehicle left behind during a training exercise.

NASA's robotic rover on Mars has found signs that a vast and hospitable lake once spread over the now-desolate Martian surface, providing a potential home to past life for centuries or longer.

Nearly all of the images in our online collections are available for purchase as archival pigment prints or digital files and many may be licensed for reproduction .

Composite image of Circinus X-1, which is about 24,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Circinus.

In a groundbreaking discovery, a collaborative team of researchers from Wisconsin, Spain, and France reported in December 2013 the first evidence of specific molecular changes at a genetic level following a period of mindfulness meditation .