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A new organic material lets both positive and negative charges flow efficiently. It permits a simpler design for organic electronics.
Although Asian-Americans as a group have lower rates of thinking about and attempting suicide than the national average, U.
As the national debate on health care policies continues, University of Washington experts are available to discuss the issues.
Like clockwork, brain regions in many songbird species expand and shrink seasonally in response to hormones.
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Depression is common after a stroke, and can interfere with a stroke patient’s rehabilitation.
Twenty-one fisheries management researchers and marine ecologists — many of whom have been at odds with each other in the past over the state of the world’s fisheries — have collaborated on a groundbreaking paper that puts forth a common way to look at fish abundance and exploitation as well as identifying management tools that have worked for rebuilding depleted fish stocks.
Researchers have found a way to measure exactly how much electricity is carried by tiny structures that form inside nanoscale solar cells.
Nickels leading tight field of contenders; voters oppose bag tax, poll says
Researchers have developed a nanoparticle for imaging that is able to cross the blood-brain barrier and target tumors.
Health Alliance International received a $10 million grant to work with the Mozambican government in strengthening primary health care.
Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India.
Twenty-one fisheries management researchers and marine ecologists — many of whom have been at odds with each other in the past over the state of the world’s fisheries — have collaborated on a groundbreaking paper that puts forth a common way to look at fish abundance and exploitation as well as identifying management tools that have worked for rebuilding depleted fish stocks.
New research shows that comet collisions most likely are not responsible for any of the mass extinctions in Earth’s history.
For the first time, researchers combine nanoparticles used for medical imaging and therapy in one tiny package.
Western Washington is braced for unusually hot weather this week, but University of Washington scientists say this could be one for the record books, with Seattle experiencing historic triple-digit readings.
A community workgroup led by University of Washington research scientist Caleb Banta-Green of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute unveiled today the King County 2008 annual drug trends report.
Computers have made it virtually impossible to leave the past behind.
New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade.
Researchers have discovered that the sea lamprey, which emerged from jawless fish first appearing 500 million years ago, dramatically remodels its genome.
Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning.
The images below may be used to illustrate the news release about the new science of learning that researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego reported on in the July 17, 2009 edition of Science.
University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) is ranked among the nation’s top hospitals in U.
Wendy Stone, a researcher and clinician who has focused on the early identification and early intervention for children with autism, has been named the new director of the University of Washington’s Autism Center.
A team of researchers from the University of Washington, McGill University and Oregon State University has mapped patterns of illicit drug use across the state of Oregon using a method of sampling municipal wastewater before it is treated.
Dental disease may be a wake-up call that your diet is harming your body.
If you feel as if Western Washington has had an unusually dry start to the summer this year, you’re not mistaken.
While applauding findings that an Easter Island compound extends the lives of middle-aged mice, University of Washington longevity researchers caution that healthy people shouldn’t start taking the drug in the hopes of extending their own life spans — at least not yet.
Ask any mother and she’ll tell you that raising a preschooler is no easy task.
WHO: Kent elementary school students, UW Medicine physicians and UW Medical Center dietitian Diane Javelli
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Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain.
A study of elderly patients receiving CPR in the hospital shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005.
The equipment used for biomedical research is shrinking, but the physical properties of the fluids under investigation are not changing.
The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience.
New research shows that, at least for some insects, wings that flex and deform, something like what happens to a heavy beach towel when you snap it to get rid of the sand, are the best for staying aloft.
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Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli different species face.
WHAT: A home-built rocket that will compete later this week in the 4th annual Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition.
Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand how people settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands.