January 25, 2005
UW to display conceptual drawings for proposed underground lab
University of Washington 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.
January 20, 2005
New evidence indicates biggest extinction wasn’t caused by asteroid or comet
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 University of Washington scientist disputes that notion.
January 6, 2005
Waterways recover slowly after volcanic eruption, study shows
Erupting volcanoes are among the most destructive forces in Mother Nature’s arsenal.
UW opens office to foster communications on underground lab proposal
The University of Washington has established a special office to support further development of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades.
Evidence of ancient lakes seen in the Himalayas
Ice dams across the deepest gorge on Earth created some of the highest-elevation lakes in history.
January 5, 2005
Pinatubo’s rivers show the danger isn’t over when volcanic eruption ends
Erupting volcanoes are among the most destructive forces in Mother Nature’s arsenal.
December 15, 2004
UW opens office to foster communications on underground lab proposal
The University of Washington has established a special office to support further development of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades.
December 13, 2004
Historic Himalayan ice dams created huge lakes, mammoth floods
Ice dams across the deepest gorge on Earth created some of the highest-elevation lakes in history.
December 2, 2004
Atmosphere warming claim validated by new study
A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth’s surface.
November 4, 2004
Hurricanes spark memory of great NW storms past
Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne weren’t very hospitable houseguests.
October 21, 2004
Mystery object isn’t a star or a brown dwarf
A team of astronomers using telescopes at two Hawaiian observatories has found that one of the interacting stars in a binary star system has lost so much mass to its partner that it has deteriorated to a strange, inactive body that doesn’t resemble any known star type.
October 14, 2004
New propulsion concept could make possible 90-day round trip to the red planet
A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.
New propulsion concept could make 90-day Mars round trip possible
A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.
September 30, 2004
Bonding center to seek solutions to major problems in chemistry
A new national research center is being established at the UW with the aim of finding easier, more powerful and more environmentally friendly ways of manipulating the strong chemical bonds found in most materials, from petroleum products to pharmaceuticals and biological molecules.
Researchers’ method helps prevent ivory poaching
Despite a longstanding international ban on ivory trade, African elephants continue to be killed in large numbers for their prized tusks.
September 29, 2004
UW chemist Daniel Gamelin earns Presidential Early Career Award
A University of Washington chemist whose work focuses on developing new inorganic semiconductor materials is among 57 researchers who this month received Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
September 28, 2004
Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
Substantially more men than women favor routine paternity testing when a baby is born, according to a recent University of Washington survey, but the surprise to researchers is that the percentage of men favoring such testing wasn’t higher.
September 27, 2004
Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
Despite a long-standing international ban on ivory trade, African elephants continue to be killed in large numbers for their prized tusks.
September 26, 2004
Mount St. Helens activity increasing likelihood of hazardous event
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September 24, 2004
Mount St. Helens hit by swarm of small earthquakes
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September 13, 2004
Sugar-coated sea urchin eggs could have sweet implications for human fertility
For many years scientists have believed they understood how closely related species that occupy the same regions of the ocean were kept from interbreeding.
August 31, 2004
New national research center at UW aims to solve big chemistry problems
A new national research center is being established at the University of Washington with the aim of finding easier, more powerful and more environmentally friendly ways of manipulating the strong chemical bonds found in most materials, from petroleum products to pharmaceuticals and biological molecules.
August 24, 2004
Two warbler species find the West isn’t big enough for both of them
A songbird species known as the Townsend’s warbler has been steadily displacing its more timid sister species, the hermit warbler, from Western forests for thousands of years. New research suggests substantially higher androgen levels is the reason.
August 19, 2004
Cycling antibiotics ineffective, study shows
Hospital patients increasingly face tenacious bacterial infections because microbes found in hospitals acquire resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics.
August 17, 2004
Siberian forest fires partly to blame for Seattle area violating EPA ozone limit
Siberian forest fire smoke pushed Seattle’s air quality past federal environmental limits on one day in 2003, and a University of Washington, Bothell, scientist says rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have greater effects all along the West Coast.
August 9, 2004
Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won’t work, study shows
Hospital patients increasingly face tenacious bacterial infections because microbes acquire resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics. A new study shows a recent strategy designed to slow antibiotic resistance — alternating the most commonly used antibiotics in hospitals — probably won’t work.
August 5, 2004
Subatomic neutrinos linked to speed of universe’s expansion
Two of the biggest physics breakthroughs during the last decade were the discovery that wispy subatomic particles called neutrinos actually have a small amount of mass and the detection that the expansion of the universe is actually picking up speed.
July 27, 2004
New theory links neutrino’s slight mass to accelerating universe expansion
Two major physics breakthroughs in the last decade are the discovery that neutrinos have mass and that universe expansion is accelerating. Three physicists are suggesting the two discoveries are integrally linked through one of the strangest features of the universe: dark energy.
July 22, 2004
Record rain: UW scientists find some of the biggest raindrops ever
If raindrops on roses are among your favorite things, UW researchers have encountered some monster drops that could change your mind.
July 13, 2004
Some of the biggest raindrops on record found in both clean and dirty air
On two occasions, separated by four years and thousands of miles and in very different conditions, raindrops were measured at sizes similar to or greater than the largest ever recorded. The largest ones were at least 8 millimeters in diameter and were possibly a centimeter, about four-tenths of an inch or a quarter the size of a golf ball.
July 8, 2004
A century of excellence: Friday Harbor Labs to celebrate 100 years
Judging by how well his investment has performed for the University of Washington in the last 100 years, one could argue that Trevor Kincaid might have done well on Wall Street.
June 24, 2004
Broken chimneys: Is Seattle fault to blame?
When the Nisqually earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, brick chimneys in parts of West Seattle and Bremerton were left looking like so much straw after the Big Bad Wolf had gone huffing and puffing through.
June 22, 2004
Brick chimneys can double as strong-motion sensors in earthquakes
When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, hundreds of brick chimneys in two neighborhoods were seriously damaged or toppled. New research suggests the shaking in these areas might have been intensified by the Seattle fault, even though it was not the source of the earthquake.
June 17, 2004
A celestial surprise: Comet Wild 2 unlike any other body in solar system
Scientists expected the Stardust spacecraft to send back pictures of comet Wild 2 showing a chunk of rock and ice coated with dust, obscuring any interesting features. Instead, they got images filled with sharply defined mesas, craters, pinnacles and canyons.
June 3, 2004
Research reinforces evidence for Tacoma fault
Scientists know that tectonic stresses have left dips and folds deep within the Earth’s crust across a large swath of the Puget Sound region called the Seattle uplift.
Climate disaster film The Day After Tomorrow wildly incorrect — but fun
A much-publicized new action thriller on the perils of climate change hit theaters last Friday, but UW climate experts who got a sneak peek agree moviegoers can rest assured that a real-life version of The Day After Tomorrow won’t be anything like what they see on the screen.
June 1, 2004
Folds at surface show ancient seismic stresses still at work in Washington
New research shows the tectonic stresses that have left dips and folds deep in the Earth’s crust in an area called the Seattle uplift have done the same thing at the surface.
May 28, 2004
UW scientists say new Hollywood climate thriller is so bad it’s good
University of Washington climate scientists say a much-publicized new action thriller on the perils of climate change misses the scientific mark.
May 20, 2004
Underground lab plan unveiled
A preliminary plan for a national science and engineering laboratory deep underground near Leavenworth is being unveiled this week as a starting point for a formal proposal.
Massive, quiet quake under way — but you won’t feel a thing
Right on schedule, a slow earthquake apparently has started deep beneath western Washington.
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