October 31, 2005
New book expands biological classifications to account for ‘alien’ life
What would you call an alien if you encountered it on the street tomorrow? What if that alien didn’t come from another world but rather was created in a laboratory right here on Earth and functioned differently from other Earth life?
Either way, Peter Ward has the beginnings of an answer.
October 28, 2005
Effects from global warming tops agenda
The level and breadth of interest in the subject of climate change and its effects in Washington state was evidenced Thursday as a capacity crowd of more than 600 attended “The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: Planning for Climate Disruption,” sponsored by King County and various state agencies.
October 27, 2005
UW scientists find growth control organ
Many baffled parents have wondered whether their teenagers would ever stop growing.
October 24, 2005
Researchers find gland that tells fruit flies when to stop growing
Many baffled parents have wondered whether their teenagers would ever stop growing.
October 6, 2005
Penguin chicks with human visitors more stressed, study shows
Newly hatched magellanic penguin chicks in breeding grounds with a large number of human visitors show a significant spike in levels of a stress-related hormone compared to chicks hatched in areas not visited by humans, a UW research team has found.
Beyond 3D: Evolving universe favored three or seven dimensions, researchers say
Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they are undetectable.
September 29, 2005
Telescope gets NSF funding
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a project in which the UW is a major participant, has received the first year of a four-year, $14.
September 28, 2005
Physicists say universe evolution favored three and seven dimensions
Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they are undetectable.
September 26, 2005
Penguin chicks exposed to human visitors experience spike in stress hormone
Newly hatched magellanic penguin chicks in breeding grounds with a large number of human visitors show a significant spike in levels of a stress-related hormone compared to chicks hatched in areas not visited by humans, a University of Washington research team has found.
August 29, 2005
New chemistry method uses ‘test tubes’ far smaller than the width of a hair
Using a water droplet 1 trillion times smaller than a liter of club soda as a sort of nanoscale test tube, a University of Washington scientist is conducting chemical analysis and experimentation at unprecedented tiny scales.
August 18, 2005
Tropics likely to suffer most in climate change
The impact of global warming has become obvious in high latitude regions, including Alaska, Siberia and the Arctic, where melting ice and softening tundra are causing profound changes.
August 11, 2005
Warming most evident at high latitudes, but greatest impact will be in tropics
The impact of global warming has become obvious in high latitude regions, including Alaska, Siberia and the Arctic, where melting ice and softening tundra are causing profound changes.
August 8, 2005
Model gives clearer idea of how oxygen came to dominate Earth’s atmosphere
A number of hypotheses have been used to explain how free oxygen first accumulated in Earth’s atmosphere some 2.
July 21, 2005
National Science Foundation eliminates Cascades lab site from consideration
The National Science Foundation has eliminated a proposed site in the Cascade mountains near Leavenworth from consideration as a potential location for a national Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory.
Tall tales may be true, seismically speaking
Stories of two-headed serpents and epic battles between Thunderbird and Whale, common among Northwest native peoples, have their roots in the region’s seismic history.
July 11, 2005
Native lore tells the tale: There’s been a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on
Stories of two-headed serpents and epic battles between Thunderbird and Whale, common among Northwest native peoples, have their root in the region’s seismic history.
June 23, 2005
Soil itself creates some pollutants, observable even from space
Nitrogen oxides produced by huge fires and fossil fuel combustion are a major component of air pollution.
June 6, 2005
Study uncovers dirty little secret: Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution
Nitrogen oxides produced by huge fires and fossil fuel combustion are a major component of air pollution.
May 19, 2005
UW expert: Privatizing weather forecasting could damage quality of service
Legislation now before Congress would prevent the National Weather Service from providing information that the private sector is supplying, or could supply, to the public.
May 16, 2005
Plan to privatize most forecasting would cripple weather service, expert says
Legislation now before Congress would prevent the National Weather Service from providing information that the private sector is supplying, or could supply, to the public.
May 12, 2005
Earth’s reflectivity a great unknown in gauging climate change impacts
Earth’s climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it should be because data are too scarce on how much energy the planet reflects into space.
War and environment is topic of talk
The head of the United Nations Environment Program’s Post-Conflict Assessment Unit and chairman of the unit’s Iraq Task Force will be the featured speaker at a lecture Tuesday evening that caps the UW Program on the Environment’s War and the Environment day.
May 5, 2005
Earth’s reflectivity a great unknown in gauging climate change impacts
Earth’s climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it should be because data are too scarce on how much energy the planet reflects into space.
April 28, 2005
UW researcher: Public should be educated about growing danger of tsunamis
The tsunami that devastated south Asia coastlines and killed more than 200,000 people last December is a powerful reminder of just how dangerous those waves can be to humans.
April 26, 2005
South Asia disaster shows tsunamis are an ongoing threat to humans
The tsunami that devastated south Asia coastlines and killed more than 200,000 people last December is a powerful reminder of just how dangerous those waves can be to humans.
April 21, 2005
Consider the calico: ‘Methylation’ shows how DNA is expressed
Genetic information that determines hair color or whether an individual might develop a particular cancer is passed from one generation to the next through DNA.
Low oxygen may have helped ‘Great Dying’
The biggest mass extinction in Earth history, some 251 million years ago, was preceded by elevated extinction rates before the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years.
April 19, 2005
Method shows how precisely gene expression signals are copied in DNA replication
Genetic information that determines hair color or whether an individual might develop a particular cancer is passed from one generation to the next through DNA.
April 14, 2005
Low oxygen likely made ‘Great Dying’ worse, greatly delayed recovery
The biggest mass extinction in Earth history some 251 million years ago was preceded by elevated extinction rates before the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years.
March 31, 2005
Ice core ‘dipstick’ shows West Antarctic ice has thinned less than previously believed
Rising sea levels 20,000 years ago, as the last ice age was beginning to wane, often are attributed in part to melting in West Antarctica.
Forward into the past: Researchers study matter created in microsecond after Big Bang
Scientists trying to recreate conditions that existed just a few millionths of a second after the big bang that started the universe have run into a mysterious problem — some of the reactions they are getting don’t mesh with what they thought they were supposed to see.
March 23, 2005
Ice core ‘dipstick’ indicates West Antarctic ice has thinned less than believed
Rising sea levels 20,000 years ago, as the last ice age was beginning to wane, often are attributed in part to melting in West Antarctica.
March 21, 2005
Exotic physics finds black holes could be most ‘perfect,’ low-viscosity fluid
In three spatial dimensions, it is a close relative of the quark-gluon plasma, the super-hot state of matter that hasn’t existed since the tiniest fraction of a second after the big bang that started the universe.
March 16, 2005
Researchers find evidence of dark energy in our galactic neighborhood
Astrophysicists in recent years have found evidence for a force they call dark energy in observations from the farthest reaches of the universe, billions of light years away.
March 15, 2005
Answer from ‘dusty shelf’ aids quest to see matter as it was just after big bang
Scientists trying to recreate conditions that existed just a few millionths of a second after the big bang that started the universe have run into a mysterious problem — some of the reactions they are getting don’t mesh with what they thought they were supposed to see.
March 3, 2005
Tales of transdetermination: Tiny flies aid study of non-embryonic stem cells
It has long been thought that cells that regenerate tissue do so by regressing to a developmentally younger state.
February 28, 2005
Tiny flies could lead to understanding potential for non-embryonic stem cells
It has long been thought that cells that regenerate tissue do so by regressing to a developmentally younger state.
February 15, 2005
Public lecture will focus on Northwest tsunamis
- WHAT: Tsunamis in Washington, a free public lecture
- WHO:
- Jody Bourgeois, UW Earth and space sciences professor
- Brian Atwater, U.
January 27, 2005
Allen Library to display Cascades lab drawings
UW officials have developed conceptual architectural drawings of the entry, or “portal,” for the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades, and drawings for associated surface facilities, including a visitor center and a science campus.
Warming, not impact, may have been cause of mass extinctions
For the last three years evidence has been building that the impact of a comet or asteroid triggered the biggest mass extinction in Earth history, but new research from a team headed by a UW scientist disputes that notion.
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- Jody Bourgeois, UW Earth and space sciences professor
