August 23, 2013
One-of-a-kind shell collection donated to Burke Museum
August 21, 2013
Physicists pinpoint key property of material that both conducts and insulates
UW scientists have made the first-ever accurate determination of a solid-state triple point, the temperature and pressure at which three different solid phases can coexist stably.
August 20, 2013
Network would move the classroom to the reservation
August 19, 2013
Medical students learn practical skills with unique tools
Magma can survive in upper crust for hundreds of millennia
Research shows reservoirs of silica-rich magma, which causes the most explosive volcanic eruptions, can persist in Earth’s upper crust for hundreds of thousands of years without erupting.
August 16, 2013
Helping Puget Sound shed its armor
August 14, 2013
Scientists want a detailed picture of Mount St. Helens’ plumbing
Earth scientists are laying plans for a two-year study designed to develop a better understanding of how Mount St. Helens gets its supply of volcanic magma.
Earth orbit changes were key to Antarctic warming that ended last ice age
New ice core research shows that the warming that ended the last ice age in Antarctica began at least 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.
August 8, 2013
Dementia risk tied to blood sugar
August 7, 2013
Regulating electron ‘spin’ may be key to making organic solar cells competitive
UW researchers have discovered a high-performance polymer that could make inexpensive, organic solar cells competitive with silicon-based cells.
July 22, 2013
Geochemical ‘fingerprints’ leave evidence that megafloods eroded steep gorge
For the first time, scientists have direct geochemical evidence that the 150-mile long Tsangpo Gorge, possibly the world’s deepest, was the conduit by which megafloods from glacial lakes, perhaps half the volume of Lake Erie, drained catastrophically through the Himalayas when their ice dams failed during the last 2 million years.
July 14, 2013
Some volcanoes ‘scream’ at ever-higher pitches until they blow their tops
Swarms of small earthquakes before a volcanic eruption can come in such rapid succession that they create a signal called harmonic tremor. A new eruption analysis from Alaska’s Redoubt Volcano shows the harmonic tremor glided to higher frequencies, then stopped abruptly just before six eruptions in 2009.
July 10, 2013
Greater activity having little impact on obesity
Park carbon dioxide under our feet with a biocarbon approach
July 8, 2013
Raising money for fund-it-yourself science
July 3, 2013
A medieval moment at EMP
Would onsite forecasting have averted Arizona tragedy?
June 28, 2013
UW student creates unusual world map
June 26, 2013
Working for Justice in El Salvador
June 25, 2013
Cow-sized lumpy reptile wandered ancient desert
June 19, 2013
The solar system’s future is dicey, and it began in chaos
June 14, 2013
UW geneticist flying high over Supreme Court ruling
June 6, 2013
Measuring the impact of research
June 5, 2013
Kyle MacLachlan calls his UW actor training ‘essential’
June 3, 2013
Rethinking research: What’s ethics got to do with it?
June 2, 2013
New book tells stirring story of UW crew winning Olympic gold
In 1936, when Jesse Owens made headlines by winning Olympic gold in front of Adolf Hitler, nine University of Washington rowers improbably did the same in competition that had been dominated by Germany. An upcoming book vividly tells the tale.
May 29, 2013
Inside the Professional Actor Training Program
May 21, 2013
UW expands online courses
Sounds of the sea: Stones clanging
May 15, 2013
Seattle’s ‘Mr. Sundial’ takes his passion to next level
UW astronomer Woody Sullivan, who has made Seattle the unlikely sundial capital of North America, has re-created a Renaissance ceiling sundial in his home office.
Tropical air circulation drives fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula
New UW research shows that, in recent decades, fall is the only time of extensive warming over the entire Antarctic Peninsula, and it is mostly from atmospheric circulation patterns originating in the tropics.
May 6, 2013
UW study: Exercise cuts women’s kidney stone risk
April 25, 2013
UW students pitch business plans in competition
April 24, 2013
Air pollution may harden arteries
April 22, 2013
New book explores fragile status of world’s penguins
‘Rare Earth’ redux: Moon is key to our existence
April 19, 2013
Roboticists discover the secret of insect flight
A UW biologist is among scientists who have found that the abdominal movements of some insects play a large role in flight control.
April 17, 2013
A key to mass extinctions could boost food, biofuel production
A substance implicated in several mass extinctions could greatly enhance plant growth, with implications for global food supplies biofuels, new UW research shows.
April 14, 2013
Recent Antarctic climate, glacier changes at the ‘upper bound’ of normal
In recent decades the thinning of glaciers at the edge of Antarctica has accelerated, but new UW-led research indicates the changes, though dramatic, cannot be confidently attributed to human-caused global warming.
April 12, 2013
Celebrating Earth Day at the Arboretum
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