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A UW-Madison entomologist answers your wasp-related questions.
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Hunger is rising in Wisconsin and there’s not enough emergency food to meet the need.
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Dr. Ashley Lemke helped discover an ancient caribou hunting site beneath Lake Huron. Now, she's looking for similar sites beneath Lake Michigan.
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Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski speaks with Scott Marshall — the CEO of Community Smiles Dental, a local nonprofit that provides dental care for underserved children, pregnant women and individuals with special needs in the community who are on Medicaid.
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More than 5,000 athletes are descending on Milwaukee for the 2026 USA Triathlon. They’ll be jumping into Lake Michigan for the swimming portion of the race.
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Canadian wildfire smoke led to days of terrible air quality in Milwaukee in July. A local man created an app that helps folks understand wildfire smoke where they live.
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As of July 22, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 105 cases cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal illness caused by a microscopic parasite called cyclospora.
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As the air quality improves in Milwaukee, wildfires continue spreading across Canada. Milwaukee County’s chief health policy advisor shares how to stay healthy during air quality warnings.
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You can catch the Planetarium's "Shooting Stars" program on Fridays this month, starting July 10.
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AI is reshaping how people do their jobs, and for some newsrooms, that means using it as a tool to strengthen their reporting.
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A suspicious pitch led an editor to uncover a freelance writer publishing fake stories for major newsrooms. His story gives insight into journalism’s AI era.
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AI can speed up tedious medical research tasks. But it also makes mistakes and raises privacy concerns too. How can it be used responsibly?