ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members were among international researchers who compiled the fifth climate-change assessment report. The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will host a seminar Tuesday, Oct. 1 with some of the Seattle-area authors.
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A team led by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has developed a programming language for chemistry that it hopes will streamline efforts to design a network that can guide the behavior of chemical-reaction mixtures in the same way that embedded electronic controllers guide cars, robots and other devices.
A new study shows that cancer survivors who experience memory and thinking problems may benefit from cognitive rehabilitation.
Dried filters from the mouths of filter-feeding rays started appearing in apothecary shops in recent years, but there’s been no way to know which of these gentle-natured rays was being slaughtered. Now scientists have discovered enough differences to identify the giant manta and eight devil rays using the dried filters.
Despite warming temperatures, Antarctic sea ice is on track to hit a record high. A new study suggests stronger polar winds can explain the recent increase in Southern Hemisphere sea ice.
As the military designs field robots to be more human or animal-like, it’s important to study whether soldiers could become emotionally attached to the mechanical tools and less willing to send them into harm’s way.
Scientists at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have developed a strategy to slow tumor growth and prolong survival in mice with cancer by targeting and destroying a type of cell that dampens the body’s immune response to cancer.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Michael Young will be the featured speaker at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s 30th annual Freshman Convocation, which begins at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22 in the Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion.
The residents of the Georgetown and South Park neighborhoods in Seattle’s Duwamish Valley now know how much diesel exhaust they are exposed to. A report on findings from an air pollution study comparing these neighborhoods to Beacon Hill and Queen Anne was published today, Sept. 13.
The vaccine is the first to significantly reduce the frequency of viral shedding — the surfacing of herpes virus on the genitals — and appears to activate T cell immune responses to the virus.
A committee of volunteers, including many of the state’s top business and civic leaders, has issued a report recommending a stronger partnership between the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the broad community of people that it serves.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineers have received a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to design a better cookstove, which researchers say will use half as much fuel and cut emissions by 90 percent.
A combination of interferon-alpha 2b and ribavirin, drugs routinely given for hepatitis C, may be an effective treatment for the coronovirus that causes this new disease.
In children with this form of leukemia, damage to chromosome 9 removes part of a normal copy of the gene in question, and leaves the mutated copy unopposed.
In our state, texting on a hand-held device diverts drivers’ attention more than any other distraction.
Oceanographers for the first time recorded an enormous wave breaking miles below the surface in a key bottleneck for global ocean circulation.
A group of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø graduate students wanted to help save victims of human trafficking. Along the way they won two prestigious national design awards for their efforts and hope to raise money to help even more people.
Computer-designed proteins that can recognize and interact with small biological molecules are now a reality. Scientists have succeeded in creating a protein molecule that can be programmed to unite with three different steroids.
Researchers examining virus transmission from monkeys to humans in Bangladesh found some people are infected with multiple strains of simian foamy virus.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers and federal scientists have developed the first long-term seasonal forecast of conditions for the Northwest ocean ecosystem.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher.
A team led by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineers has created a patch with tiny, biodegradable needles that can penetrate the skin and precisely deliver a tuberculosis test. The researchers published their results online Aug. 26 in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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.
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.
The winning smiles of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Huskies will be protected on the football field with customized mouth guards from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Pediatric Dentistry.
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.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø geographer Kam Wing Chan is in China this week, explaining how that country can dismantle its 55-year-old system that limits rural laborers from moving to and settling in cities and qualifying for basic social benefits.
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.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power.
Some epilepsy patients who have both seizures and speech abnormalities share something else in common — mutations on the same gene.
Washington’s governor and state legislators in the last session created a hub at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to coordinate research and monitoring of ocean acidification and its effects on local sea life such as oysters, clams and fish.
Washington state’s housing market continued to advance in the April-June quarter, with four consecutive monthly improvements in home sales activity.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have discovered a high-performance polymer that could make inexpensive, organic solar cells competitive with silicon-based cells.
Henrietta Lacks was the subject of bestselling book on the HeLa immortal cell line, the most used of its kind in labs around the world. The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø scientists are the first to publish under new policy, established through agreement with Lacks’ family.
Researchers have long suspected some kind of link between childhood abuse and smoking. But in an interesting twist, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers found a connection not between whether or not an abused child will ever begin smoking, but to how much they smoke once they do start.
Between ages three and 10, children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit distinct brain chemical changes that differ from children with developmental delays and children with typical development.
A trace substance in caramelized sugar, when purified and given in appropriate doses, improves muscle regeneration in insect and animal models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Michael K. Young today joined more than 160 other university presidents and chancellors in calling on leaders in Washington to close what they call the “innovation deficit.”
Biologist Robert Paine has been awarded this year’s International Cosmos Prize that carries a cash award of about $408,000 and has previously gone to well-known conservationists such as David Attenborough and the leaders behind the Census of Marine Life project.
Widespread media reports of a lake at the North Pole don’t hold water — but scientists who deployed the monitoring buoys are watching closely as Arctic sea ice approaches its yearly minimum.