Computer-assisted technology for recycling plastics, a technique for producing a valuable chemical from agricultural waste, and genetic mutations that can turn trees into carbon-sucking chemical factories are among the innovations by Wisconsin Energy Institute investigators that address critical

Abundant but chemically complex, lignin has long been one of the biggest challenges in the quest to produce economically viable plant-based fuels. 

UW–Madison graduate student Sam Davison hopes to make the world seem a little more interesting and people feel a bit less pessimistic. If someone learns some science along the way, that’s just a bonus. 

Brian Fox, the Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, tinkers with the way living things use chemistry to turn their own blueprints, DNA, into the processes that make a healthy organism go.

A new website for Wisconet, how budget and staff cuts threaten hurricane forecasts, impacts of the House's budget bill, plus prospects for new gas and nuclear generation.

Wisconsin's K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP) has named Wisconsin Energy Institute's Allison Bender as 2025 Energy Educator of the Year.

Microbes are key to turning plants into liquid fuels: Yeasts and bacteria eat plant sugars like glucose and turn them into alcohols, a process known as fermentation.