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The biographies of UW alums and professional golfers Cheng-Tsung Pan and Richard Lee are featured. 

New University of Washington research finds that men who believe they fall short of those ideals might be prompted to reassert their masculinity in small but significant ways.

Researcher from the UW's Virtual Planetary Laboratory asks "what does life look like on other planets?"

Former UW golfer C.T. Pan survived the cut and is still among the field competing for the U.S. Open this weekend.

To stop elephant slaughter in Africa, zoologist Sam Wasser spent years extracting DNA from elephant dung and tissue. Much of the world's poached ivory, he discovered, comes from just three places.

The root cause of why we get less sleep now than our ancestors could come down to a very simple reason: artificial light.

UW biologist Samuel Wasser's pioneering work is helping stop illegal ivory trade that's decimating the African elephant population.

Investigators who collected DNA from the tusks of slain elephants have identified two large areas where the slaughter has been occurring

Most illegal ivory comes from animals killed in two areas in Africa: Tanzania and a protected area that spans Gabon, Republic of Congo, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.

The key to saving elephants from poachers could be locked up in the animals' DNA, according to the results of a new study.