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UW biologist Sam Wasser pushes for more forensic testing of seized ivory to help track down poachers, slow elephant slaughter.

UW assistant professor of biology Benjamin Kerr is corresponding author of a paper examining the importance of early and gradual mutations among bacteria populations when confronted with surviving would be extinction-causing conditions.

Professor of biology Emily Carrington reported Saturday that the fibrous threads she calls "nature's bungee cords" become 60 percent weaker in water that was 15 degrees F above typical summer temperatures where the mussels were from.

In an op-ed piece, Victor Menaldo, assistant professor of political science, and co-author consider the possibilities for democracy in the Middle East after the Arab Spring.

So do aphrodisiacs really work? Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology, says the power of pheromones and aphrodisiacs lack the scientific proof to make a believer out of her.

President Obama's call for universal preschool in his State of the Union address underlines a national shift in thinking about early childhood education. Andrew Meltzoff, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences. is quoted..

Infants as young as 6 months are capable of making predictions based on probability, a higher level of reasoning than is commonly believed possible, researchers have found.

Research from the Department of Psychology shows territorial song sparrows use increasingly threatening signals to ward off trespassing rivals.

UW graduate student (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) Martha Gonzalez took home a Grammy for her vocal work on the Quetzal! album "Imaginaries," in the best Latin rock, urban or alternative category

The Bellingham Herald reviews "Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People," by Anthony Greenwald, professor of psychology, and Mahzarin Banaji, of Harvard.