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University of Washington astronomers and colleagues have measured the distance to galaxies six billion light-years away -- about halfway back to the Big Bang -- to an accuracy of just 1 percent.

With the new year come new events to entertain and inspire you including the School of Music's Littlefield Organ concert and a piano performance by Garrick Ohlsson presented by the UW World Series.

Ross Reynolds talks with UW historian Trevor Griffey about Seattle's role in protests that led to the early formation of affirmative action.

If you're a sparrow and you've flitted into another sparrow's territory, you can expect some warnings before you get attacked -- but not always, and that's puzzling University of Washington researchers.

Turns out your vocabulary doesn't have to be top-notch to help your kid learn more words - baby talk is the key, University of Washington research shows.

A UW physicist who has been looking for evidence that causality can go backward in time says he's making progress on nailing down the theoretical foundations for such quantum weirdness.

NPR profiles Sarah Stroup's class called War Games: Greek Athletes, Roman Gladiators, the Modern Olympics and College Football.

Although a population of bacteria may be genetically identical, individual bacteria within that population can act in radically different ways.

A new project encourages hosts around the country to gather friends and families to talk about what matters in death and in life. Creator Michael Hebb said he came up with the idea during a class he co-taught in the UW communications department.

In an article that looks at the changing face of race around our region,Charles Hirschman, sociology professor at the UW thinks making the question about race and ethnicity on census forms open-ended might confuse people filling out the forms.