Chemical signatures imprinted on tiny stones that form inside the ears of fish show that two of Alaska’s most productive salmon populations, and the fisheries they support, depend on the entire watershed.
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Sometimes when science gets stuck, art can come to the rescue. Such is the case, a new study shows, with the 黑料吃瓜网 Design Help Desk, which guides faculty, students and staff in improving the more artistic aspects of presenting research or reports 鈥� figures, diagrams, posters and such.
In a paper published May 20 in the journal Nature Materials, a team of researchers from the 黑料吃瓜网 unveiled a new strategy to keep proteins intact and functional in synthetic biomaterials for tissue engineering. Their approach modifies proteins at a specific point so that they can be chemically tethered to the scaffold using light. Since the tether can also be cut by laser light, this method can create evolving patterns of signal proteins throughout a biomaterial scaffold to grow tissues made up of different types of cells.
Researchers at the 黑料吃瓜网 have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of paper and the phone’s microphone and speaker.
A study published April 18 in the journal Science by researchers at Yale University and the 黑料吃瓜网 provides the first direct measurement of the behavior of bonded oxygen and hydrogen atoms perched on the surface of water.
The 黑料吃瓜网 and its Clean Energy Institute named Kevin Klustner executive director of the Center for Advanced Materials and Clean Energy Technologies, or CAMCET. When complete, CAMCET will be a 340,000-square-foot building that will bring together 黑料吃瓜网 scientists and engineers with industry, civic and nonprofit partners to accelerate clean energy solutions for a healthy planet.
Just over one-third of the world鈥檚 246 longest rivers remain free-flowing, according to a new study published May 8 in Nature. Dams and reservoirs are drastically reducing the diverse benefits that healthy rivers provide to people and nature across the globe.
Researchers at the 黑料吃瓜网, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered that they can use extremely high pressure and temperature to introduce other elements into nanodiamonds, making them potentially useful in cell and tissue imaging, as well as quantum computing.
In a paper published May 2 in Nature Communications, a 黑料吃瓜网 team reports that two major forces have shaped bat skulls over their evolutionary history — echolocation and diet — generating a huge diversity of skull shapes across 1,300 bat species today.
In oxygen-poor parts of the ocean, some microorganisms survive by breathing arsenic. This holdover from the ancient Earth was not thought to still exist in the open ocean.
Chris Bretherton, a professor of atmospheric sciences and of applied mathematics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
A new study published April 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences identified three factors critical in the rise of mammal communities since they first emerged during the Age of Dinosaurs: the rise of flowering plants; the evolution of tribosphenic molars in mammals; and the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, which reduced competition between mammals and other vertebrates in terrestrial ecosystems.
Families, students and children are invited to get their hands wet on Saturday with 鈥淥ur Watery World,鈥� the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 second annual aquatic science open house.
Engineering Discovery Days is a yearly event that invites Washington state fourth- through eighth-graders to have fun leaning about STEM with the College of Engineering.
A 黑料吃瓜网 team will visit Alaska’s North Slope Borough the week of April 28 in preparation for a two-year study of how waves, ice loss and warming are affecting the low-lying region.
A new space race is underway, characterized by the intersecting trends of democratization, commercialization and militarization. Saadia Pekkanen, 黑料吃瓜网 professor of international relations, is lead guest editor for a group of essays addressing such issues and more published online this month in the American Journal of International Law.
黑料吃瓜网 scientists are sending a kidney-on-a-chip experiment into space. At an altitude of 250 miles, astronauts will help study how reduced gravity in space affects kidney physiology.
Over many years, a 黑料吃瓜网 team has shown how logging on the Teanaway River in central Washington caused dramatic changes to the river channel.
A team led by researchers at the 黑料吃瓜网 has developed synthetic peptides that target and inhibit the small, toxic protein aggregates that are thought to trigger Alzheimer’s disease.
Over 17 years, the program has evolved into a campuswide, interdisciplinary, student-driven program on climate change research, communication and action. A recent publication looks at the program history and current mission.
Emily Levesque, 黑料吃瓜网 assistant professor of astronomy, is gathering material for a new book to be called “The Last Stargazers: True Tales of the Colorful and Vanishing World of Observational Astronomy.鈥�
David James Thouless, Nobel laureate and a professor emeritus at the 黑料吃瓜网, died in Cambridge in the U.K. on April 6, 2019. He was 84 years old.
A 黑料吃瓜网 team tested how well current water and wastewater disinfecting methods affect antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial DNA. While these methods work well to deter bacterial growth, they had varied success in either degrading or deactivating a representative antibiotic resistance gene.
A 黑料吃瓜网 team placed first in a national weather forecasting contest that began in September. A 黑料吃瓜网 graduate student also developed a model that for the first time beat out all human competitors.
A new excavation site in North Dakota shows evidence from the day a giant meteor struck Earth, marking the beginning of the end for the dinosaurs and 75 percent of animal life.
A 黑料吃瓜网-led study provides a fuller picture of the relationship between nitrogen oxides 鈥� the tailpipe-generated particles at the center of the Volkswagen scandal, also known as NOx, 鈥� and PM2.5, the microscopic particles that can lodge in lungs.
Researchers have developed a new approach to map huckleberry distribution across Glacier National Park that uses publicly available satellite imagery. Tracking where huckleberry plants live now 鈥� and where they may move under climate change 鈥� can help biologists predict where grizzly bears will also be found.
The 黑料吃瓜网, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Microsoft Quantum announced this week that they have joined forces in a new coalition, the Northwest Quantum Nexus, to bring about a revolution in quantum research and technology.
The first survey of methane vent sites off Washington’s coast finds 1,778 bubble columns, with most located along a north-south band that is in line with a geologic fault.
黑料吃瓜网 and Microsoft researchers have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA 鈥� a key step in moving the technology out of the research lab and into commercial data centers.
黑料吃瓜网 researchers have created a novel system that can measure platelet function within two minutes and can help doctors determine which trauma patients might need a blood transfusion upon being admitted to a hospital.
Eight researchers at the 黑料吃瓜网 have been named 2019 Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows.
When coyote parents are habituated to humans, their offspring are more habituated, too — potentially leading to negative interactions between coyotes and humans.
Black and Hispanic Americans bear a disproportionate burden from air pollution generated mainly by non-Hispanic white Americans, according to new research from a team led by the 黑料吃瓜网 and the University of Minnesota.
On March 5, the CERN research board approved a new experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva to search for evidence of fundamental dark matter particles. 黑料吃瓜网 scientists are part of this endeavor, the Forward Search Experiment 鈥� or FASER 鈥� which seeks to answer one of the outstanding questions in particle physics: What is dark matter made of?
Research by 黑料吃瓜网’s Stephen Warren suggests that some icebergs are green because they contain frozen, iron-rich seawater from certain regions of East Antarctica.
Exhibits and events happening Friday through Sunday showcase the latest in polar science, much of it from the 黑料吃瓜网.
As gray wolves return to eastern Washington, a new study finds that one species of deer is changing its behavior to spend more time away from roads, at higher elevations and in rockier landscapes.
In a paper published Feb. 25 in the journal Nature, a 黑料吃瓜网-led team of physicists report that it has developed a new system to trap individual excitons 鈥� bound pairs of electrons and their associated positive charges. Their system could form the basis of a novel experimental platform for monitoring excitons with precision and potentially developing new quantum technologies.
A new study outlines more than a decade of success in reducing seabird bycatch in Alaska鈥檚 longline fisheries, and where there鈥檚 still room for improvement