Water fleas from clear-water alpine ponds are better able to withstand UV radiation than those in murkier ponds nearby.
Author: Vince Stricherz
I spent more than 20 years as a reporter and editor in broadcast, print and wire service news, and have been covering physical sciences at UW for more than a decade. I currently cover Earth and space sciences, chemistry and physics, and also handle some editing duties for UW Today and the Faculty & Staff Insider Web pages.
In recent decades, documented biological changes in the far Northern Hemisphere — from species extinctions to shifting geographic ranges — have been attributed to global warming.
For more than 40 years, John “Mike” Wallace has been a fixture at the UW.
Rising temperatures are most obvious in colder climates, but the impact of warming on life could be much greater in the tropics.
The nearly $3.6 million in Interior Department funding will ramp up efforts already underway at three Pacific Northwest universities.
For many people, all stars are “cool.
The National Research Council has endorsed a major telescope project in which the UW is a key player as a priority among science projects to receive federal funding in the next decade.
In experiments with potentially broad health care implications, a research team led by a UW physicist has devised a method that works at a very small scale to sequence DNA quickly and relatively inexpensively.
UW seismologists have begun recording a slow-moving and unfelt seismic event under the Olympic Peninsula, and it promises to be the best-documented such event in the eight years since the regularly occurring phenomena were first discovered.
A new technique works at a very small scale to sequence DNA quickly and relatively inexpensively.
The National Research Council has endorsed funding for an international telescope project in which the UW is a key player.
UW scientists will monitor slow-slip event with more than 100 seismic recording stations.
Estella Leopold, a University of Washington emeritus professor of biology, has been honored with the International Cosmos Prize.
Throughout history, natural events such as volcanic eruptions have periodically spewed tiny particles, called aerosols, into the atmosphere and cooled the Earth’s climate by reflecting sunlight back into space.
WHAT: Learn where Puget Sound waters have particularly low pH values compared to what is normal for ocean waters and what proportion is probably the result of man-made carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Nick Bond has been doing climate research at the UW since 1990, but he wants to learn even more about climate and its history in Washington state.
Astronomers hunting for planets orbiting nearby stars similar to the sun are looking for signs of rocky, Earth-like planets in a “habitable” zone, where conditions such as temperature and liquid water remain stable enough to support life.
Nick Bond, senior meteorologist with the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, will take over climatologist role.
Computer models indicate some exoplanets might fluctuate between being habitable and not because of eccentric orbits of neighboring planets.
May 18 marks the 30th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St.
New research indicates that one of the largest fresh-water floods in Earth’s history happened about 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska that is now occupied in part by the city of Wasilla, widely known because of the 2008 presidential campaign.
New research shows one of the largest fresh-water megafloods in Earth’s history inundated an area now occupied in part by Wasilla, Alaska.
Petitions by Tanzania and Zambia for exceptions to a ban on ivory sales, strongly opposed by conservationists including Samuel Wasser of the UW (see our story <A href="http://uwnews.
An international convention will meet next week to decide whether to grant requests from Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their elephants, allowing them to conduct one-time sales of stockpiled ivory.
The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast.
A team of conservationists writing in Science says relaxing a moratorium on ivory sales could increase the slaughter of African elephants.
Researchers find that chemistry involving airborne chloride, thought to occur only on seashores, occurs at similar rates 900 miles inland.
Brian Atwater, a University of Washington affiliate professor of Earth and space sciences and a U.
What do you do if you are a scientist who studies space physics and electromagnetic properties of the atmosphere and a powerful force — namely, lightning — interferes with your work? If you are Robert Holzworth, you study the interference.
Yields from some of the most important crops begin to decline sharply when average temperatures exceed about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 Fahrenheit.
Yields from some of the most important crops begin to decline sharply when average temperatures exceed about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 Fahrenheit.
Phase transitions – changes of matter from one state to another without altering its chemical makeup – are an important part of life in our three-dimensional world.
Scientists have devised a way to explore how phase changes of matter from one state to another function in fewer than three dimensions.
UW research devises formula to examine just what types of change occur over time among complex and integrated structures.
Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth’s “climate sensitivity” — the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
Peter Ward has never been one to shy away from controversy.
Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth’s “climate sensitivity” — the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
For more than two decades, the cold dark matter theory has been used by cosmologists to explain how the smooth universe born in the big bang more than 13 billion years ago evolved into the filamentary, galaxy-rich cosmic web that we see today.
New research led by UW scientists has shown clearly that two relatively nearby stars that normally are surrounded by disks have, at least once, seen those disks completely dissipate over a period of several years before they reformed from material spewing from the stars.