April 11, 2013
Senate confirms Sally Jewell as Interior secretary
UW musician finds key to solving saxophone discord
April 10, 2013
Bringing art to Arctic narwhal research
April 4, 2013
Listening to the Big Bang – in high fidelity (audio)
A UW physicist has used new satellite data to update his decade-old recreation of the sound of the Big Bang at the birth of the universe.
April 3, 2013
Safety emphasis cuts UW’s major construction injuries to less than 2 percent
Construction can be a dangerous business, and there’s always plenty of it happening at the University of Washington, from remodeling a section of one building to refurbishing an entire building or erecting a new one. A decade ago, when the Capital Projects Office began keeping tabs on worker injuries, it was estimated that 12 of…
Inventions that came from the UW
Paws on Science 2013
It’s Husky Weekend at Pacific Science Center, and UW scientists and researchers will have family-oriented activities and exhibits ranging from building a race car to controlling underwater robots.
April 1, 2013
Infant tests for debilitating diseases set for mainstream
UW-developed screening for debilitating, often-fatal genetic conditions has drawn interest from companies that could use it in tests distributed nationally and around the world.
March 22, 2013
Rising ocean acidity saps mussels’ strength
March 18, 2013
UW professor fights poverty one land plot at a time
March 15, 2013
Endangered species meeting endorses ivory testing
March 13, 2013
Ethnomusicology’s Global Reach
March 8, 2013
The engineering and design behind EcoCar2
March 6, 2013
UW nautilus expedition may have spied new species
A University of Washington research team has captured color photographs of what could be a previously undocumented species of chambered nautilus, a cephalopod mollusk often classified as a “living fossil,” in the waters off American Samoa in the South Pacific. “This is certainly a new taxon, but we are not sure if it is a…
Kate Starbird’s new path leads to UW
Crow slumber party at UW Bothell
February 27, 2013
Tusk tracking will tackle illegal trade
UW biologist to push for more forensic testing of seized ivory to help track down poachers, slow elephant slaughter.
February 20, 2013
UW researcher finds new scorpion species
February 19, 2013
UW study: Some TV can ease kids’ aggression
February 13, 2013
Digital learning
UW scientist explains weird shiny thing on Mars
February 6, 2013
UW regent, REI head Jewell named to Interior post
February 1, 2013
Turning necessity into success
January 29, 2013
Beer’s bitter compounds could help brew new medicines
A UW researcher has determined the precise configuration of substances derived from hops that give beer its distinctive flavor, a finding that could lead to important new pharmaceuticals.
January 25, 2013
Kidney disease is diabetics’ deadliest threat
January 24, 2013
Admissions: A rise in minority applicants
Recent admissions statistics show that more minority students are applying to the UW.
January 23, 2013
Greenland ice core shows Antarctica vulnerable to warming
A UW scientist’s work aided a Greenland ice study that could indicate where Earth is headed with climate change.
January 22, 2013
Seized ivory could help UW biologist stop poachers
January 17, 2013
Scientific families: Dynasty
MLK and sacred songs that feed the soul
January 4, 2013
Many unaware of radiation risk from CT scans
January 2, 2013
UW student gets degree months after his death
December 21, 2012
UW Bothell biologist wins teaching honor from Science
December 20, 2012
UW geneticist gets the Hollywood treatment
December 18, 2012
Eerie photos show ‘flowers’ made of Arctic ice
Burke Museum exhibit explores the impact of plastics
Ecological avatars predict species invasions
December 13, 2012
Massive shifts reshape the health landscape worldwide
December 10, 2012
Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested
A British philosopher once suggested the possibility that our universe might be a computer simulation run by our descendants. A team of physicists at UW has devised a potential test to see if the idea has merit.
December 7, 2012
Greenland ice sheet carries evidence of increased atmospheric acidity
Research suggests rising atmospheric acidity is probably why levels of the isotope nitrogen-15 in Greenland ice samples dropped around the time of the Industrial Revolution.
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