Animals are capable of making instinctive safety decisions, a UW researcher has learned. Professor of Psychology Jeansok Kim demonstrated that rats weigh their odds of safely retrieving food pellets placed at varying distances from a perceived predator.
The most widely used measure for assessing oceans and fisheries led to inaccurate conclusions about half the time it was used, according to research led by a UW fisheries scientist.
Widely used fragranced products — including those that claim to be “green” — give off many chemicals that are not listed on the label, including some that are toxic, a UW study found.
The decades-long tradition of salmon returning to campus each fall is ending because of new directions in fisheries research and budget cuts.
In “Profit of Education,” UW economics Professor Dick Startz says America’s public school system can be fixed if we raise teacher salaries 40 percent, which would pay for itself nine times over.
See some amazing video of army ants at work, including one in which they bring down prey many times larger than themselves.
Journey 300 miles off the Washington-Oregon coast and dive nearly a mile deep into the ocean as scientists and 20 students use underwater robots to explore, map and sample methane ice deposits, an underwater volcano and seafloor hot springs spewing water up to 570 degrees F.
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.
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