Innovations like this are why Freedman wants to create one of the country’s most advanced 3D printing labs at UW-Stout.

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James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who spent time growing up in Milwaukee and who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.

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As a critical mass of invasive carp creeps ever closer to Wisconsin’s waterways, youth on the Wisconsin River are helping monitor their spread.

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Federal transportation officials were in Oshkosh Tuesday, where they announced a new federal aviation rule and addressed efforts to modernize the country’s air traffic control system.

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A bald eagle that nearly died from a leg injury took flight this summer in northwestern Wisconsin, after it was rehabilitated for nearly a year using a first-of-its-kind cod fish skin graft treatment primarily used in humans. 

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UW-Madison’s Keith Bechtol has played a hand in building the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. A camera with 3.2 billion pixels will collect the data equivalent of all written language over all of human history.

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, a former congressman from Wisconsin, will lead NASA as its interim administrator, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday.

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Wisconsin’s Tim Friede let hundreds of venomous snakes bite him in hopes of developing a universal antivenom. His sacrifice is paying off and could help save the lives of thousands of people.

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The Arête Glacier Initiative is a new collaboration from Dartmoth and MIT that aims to improve human understanding of glaciers and prevent sea level rise. Two researchers at UW-Madison are the initiative’s first grant recipients.

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Families across Wisconsin will soon have better access to a large-scale form of genetic testing to help diagnose infants with rare conditions.

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