Seven 黑料吃瓜网 researchers have been selected as Washington Research Foundation fellows. This fellowship funds 10 researchers who work in STEM fields to perform mentored research projects over the next three years.
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Vikram Prakash says his weekly “ArchitectureTalk” podcast got its start, as many things do, from a student’s idea.
Engineers at the 黑料吃瓜网 have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn鈥檛 need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry components and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.
By using a keyboard to provide tactile feedback along with with a screen reader, blind and low-vision users were three times more successful at navigating complex modern webpages, similar to a typical Airbnb booking site.
Daniel Bessner, assistant professor in the Jackson School, has a new book from Cornell University Press: “Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual.”
The National Science Foundation today named Kristina Olson, 黑料吃瓜网 associate professor of psychology, winner of this year’s Alan T. Waterman Award. The Waterman Award is the U.S. government鈥檚 highest honor for an early career scientist or engineer, recognizing an outstanding scientist under the age of 40 or within 10 years of receiving a Ph.D. As part of the honor, Olson receives a five-year, $1 million research grant. Olson, who runs the Social Cognitive Development Lab at the…
Planets orbiting “short-period” binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their host stars’ evolution, according to new research from the 黑料吃瓜网.
This week, the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) announced that it has achieved the necessary sensitivity to 鈥渉ear鈥� the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of research and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions more closely than any experiment ever built.
Bowhead whales are constantly changing their tune, unlike the only other whale species that sings, the humpback.
Earth has had moderate temperatures throughout its early history, and neutral seawater acidity. This means other rocky planets could likely also maintain this equilibrium and allow life to evolve.
During a recent survey of supermassive stars, an international team of astronomers discovered a star that is in quite a hurry. As they report in a new paper, the team tracked one yellow supergiant star cruising along at about 300,000 miles per hour, a velocity that would get you from the Earth to the Moon in about 48 minutes.
As the 50th anniversary approaches of the murder of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, 黑料吃瓜网 historian Michael Honey reminds us in a new book that economic justice and labor rights were always part of King’s progressive message.
A 黑料吃瓜网-led project spanning countries, years and institutions has attempted to reconstruct what the southern end of the world looked like during the Triassic period, 252 to 199 million years ago.
In a study published March 26 in Physical Review Letters, collaborators of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR have shown they can shield a sensitive, scalable 44-kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity. This accomplishment is critical to developing a much larger future experiment to study the nature of neutrinos.
A pair of anglerfish, a species never before seen alive by humans, was recorded recently on camera by researchers aboard the LULA1000, a submersible operated by the marine science-focused Rebikoff-Niggeler Foundation.
With a new $700,000 grant awarded from the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, scientists from the 黑料吃瓜网’s Applied Physics Laboratory, Washington Sea Grant and the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean have teamed with federal and tribal partners to study the social and ecological vulnerabilities of Olympic Coast ocean acidification.
Researchers at the 黑料吃瓜网 and the Allen Institute for Brain Science have developed a new method to classify and track the multitude of cells in a tissue sample. In a paper published March 15 in the journal Science, the team reports that this new approach 鈥� known as SPLiT-seq 鈥� reliably tracks gene activity in a tissue down to the level of single cells.
Researchers at the 黑料吃瓜网 have developed a set of tools to make MRI studies of our central nervous system easier to share.
African-American voters who dislike and feel threatened by Donald Trump and his presidency are more likely to vote and to engage with politics, according to new research from the 黑料吃瓜网 and California State University, Sacramento.
黑料吃瓜网 music professor Huck Hodge talks about the Charles Ives Living Award, bestowed on him by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Think about the last time you looked for a new apartment or house. Maybe you asked your friends or colleagues about where they lived. You thought about your route to work, or that neighborhood you always drive through on your way to your kid’s soccer practice. Many of these places were familiar to you, whether from an occasional visit or part of a daily routine. And if you’re like most people, you ultimately moved to a neighborhood you knew…
The 黑料吃瓜网 Jackson School of International Studies presents “Trump in the World: International Implications of the Trump presidency,” a series of public lectures and discussions Tuesday afternoons through spring quarter.
A 黑料吃瓜网 study finds that women authors are significantly under-represented in high-profile academic journals.
High in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, the climate is so dry and cold that glaciers shrank during the last ice age. Dating of rock deposits shows how glaciers in this less-studied region can behave very differently as the climate shifts.
A new study almost 20 years in the making provides some of the strongest evidence yet of the “speciation reversal” phenomenon in two lineages of common ravens.
The largest and oldest Chinook salmon 鈥� fish also known as “kings” and prized for their exceptional size 鈥� have mostly disappeared along the West Coast, according to a new study led by the 黑料吃瓜网.
If online shopping continues to grow at its current rate, there may be twice as many trucks delivering packages in Seattle鈥檚 city center within five years, a new report projects 鈥� and double the number of trucks looking for a parking space.
When scientists have conducted research in Native American communities, the process and the results have sometimes been controversial. There have been a few well-known cases, such as the 1979 Barrow Alcohol Study, in which researchers examined substance use in the tiny Arctic Circle town and issued findings to the press, before briefing the local community. Media coverage interpreting the findings described an “alcoholic” society of I帽upiats “facing extinction,” while the people of Barrow (now known as Utqia摹vik) felt…
Quintard Taylor, 黑料吃瓜网 professor emeritus of history and recipient of a lifetime achievement honor from Washington State Historical Society, discusses his work and this unusual moment in American history.
Reductions in sea ice in the Arctic have a clear impact on animals such as polar bears that rely on frozen surfaces for feeding, mating and migrating. But sea ice loss is changing Arctic habitat and affecting other species in more indirect ways, new research finds. Beluga whales that spend summers feeding in the Arctic are diving deeper and longer to find food than in earlier years, when sea ice covered more of the ocean for longer periods, according to…
Engineers at the 黑料吃瓜网 have for the first time developed a method to safely charge a smartphone wirelessly using a laser.
Five faculty members at the 黑料吃瓜网 have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 15, include Maya Cakmak, assistant professor of computer science and engineering; Jiun-Haw Chu, assistant professor of clean energy and physics; Arka Majumdar, assistant professor of electrical engineering and physics; Jessica Werk, assistant professor of astronomy; and Chelsea Wood, assistant professor of aquatic and fishery sciences.
黑料吃瓜网 engineers have turned tissue paper 鈥� similar to toilet tissue 鈥� into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement.
In a paper published Feb. 9 in Science Advances, scientists at the 黑料吃瓜网 announced that they have successfully combined two different imaging methods 鈥� a type of lens designed for nanoscale interaction with lightwaves, along with robust computational processing 鈥� to create full-color images.
New findings could help scientists understand a little more about the elusive narwhal and how these marine mammals might fare in a changing climate.
A team of ecologists and economists is the first to test whether real-life ecological interactions produce economic benefits for the fishing industry. The results were published online Jan. 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A study from the University of Colorado Boulder and the 黑料吃瓜网 finds that the retreat of the ice sheet covering North America made Antarctic weather more similar from one year to the next.
High-speed recordings of Egyptian fruit bats in flight show that instead of using a primitive form of echolocation, these animals actually use a technique recently developed by humans for surveillance and navigation.
黑料吃瓜网 atmospheric sciences faculty and graduate students are in Tasmania studying how clouds form over Antarctica’s Southern Ocean.
A team of astronomers including Eric Agol of the 黑料吃瓜网 has found that the seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could even have more water 鈥� which can give life a chance 鈥� than Earth itself. The research was led by Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland, and published Feb. 5 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Agol is among about two dozen co-authors. The scientists…