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A new method expands the range of materials for which ultrasensitive measurements can be made. David Masiello, professor of chemistry at the UW, is featured. 

Some 70 percent of young athletes drop out of team sports by age 13, citing lack of fun as their main reason for quitting. UW psychologists Ron Smith and Frank Smoll are featured.

More than 40 players will perform works composed or inspired by the experimental composer John Cage, all around Town Hall Seattle on Nov. 19. There will even be amplified plants. 

ParentMap gives advice on how to discuss awareness and understanding of the world's wide range of gender variations with kids. 

UW Economics and Jackson School alum Matt Bannick, who is managing partner of the Omidyar Network, shares his approach to philanthropy in Silicon Valley.

A team of scientists examining seized shipments of elephant tusks from Africa have found that the vast majority of the ivory came from elephants that died within the last 3 years.

As a member of the state’s Electoral College, political science student Varisha Khan may be one of the people with a direct role in the formal selection of the next president.

David Horsey — a Seattle native and UW alumnus —  has been covering presidential politics since 1980, but he has never experienced anything like this campaign.

A national conservative group has sent mailers to some state voters disclosing their and their neighbors’ voting history, trying to pressure them to vote.

Nearly 50 years after the Supreme Court struck down the last remaining bans on interracial marriage, mixed-race couples are on the rise.