A new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B adds to a growing body of evidence that raccoons, to the suspected chagrin of their human counterparts, demonstrate innovative problem-solving skills when faced with new foraging challenges.

Sarah Collins, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Zoology and Physiology, has been appointed as the new Research Institute director of the UW Research Center at the AMK Ranch in Grand Teton National Park.

Jay Gatlin, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Molecular Biology, has been named the inaugural director of UW’s newly named Science Institute (SI).

Four innovative projects that aim to use technology to help Wyoming wildlife have received seed funding from the University of Wyoming’s new WyldTech Center for Wildlife, Technology and Computing.

A University of Wyoming professor led a research team on campus that studied how myxobacteria—known as social predators that kill and consume other microbes—that form social groups can cooperate with one another.

The term locoweed refers to plants in the genera Oxytropis or Astragalus and is a nod to the toxic effects that cause livestock to go “loco,” or crazy.

The Albany County Extension office will be adding a geodome greenhouse to the University of Wyoming Agricultural Community Resources for Everyday Sustainability (ACRES) gardening area.

Marketing cull cows in late summer is one strategy to capitalize on the seasonality of the cull cow market and reduce stress on pastures.

During his recent yearlong sabbatical, Daniel Laughlin led a study that found trees can sustain life in temperatures higher or lower than where they are currently growing.

Two University of Wyoming researchers recently received National Science Foundation (NSF) funding to provide paid experiential learning opportunities in controlled environment agriculture, an emerging technology that aims to foster innovation and opportunity within the field of agriculture.

The University of Wyoming’s WYOBIRD initiative will offer bird tours, crafts and educational activities, research talks, and a picnic lunch in Grand Teton National Park Saturday, July 20.

As summer arrives in Wyoming, warmer weather means it’s time to switch from the felt hat to straw, open the windows to let in the air and, most importantly for ranchers, turn cattle out to graze and start thinking about haying season.

The Wyoming Department of Agriculture announced on June 7 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been detected in one of Wyoming’s dairy herds.

An expanded framework to guide aquatic resource management is the topic of the first Harlow Summer Seminar Series event at the renovated University of Wyoming-National Park Service (UW-NPS) Research Station.

While sometimes overlooked as lesser creatures, pollinators play a crucial role in ecosystems and agriculture for several reasons.