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University of Washington astronomy students will offer residents a closer look into the sky with a their mobile planetarium -- a fully functional planetarium that offers many of the same images as the high-tech version at the UW.

Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs taking hold in Tanzania and Zambia in the mid-Triassic period, many millions of years before dinosaur relatives were seen in the fossil record elsewhere on Earth.

Sandra Silberstein, professor of English, comments on the use of language in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.

In cities around the country, more and more Americans with cell phones and social media accounts are helping police solve crimes, whether they know it or not. Hanson Hosein, director of the program on communication in digital media, comments.

First Hill's Frye Art Museum is the best-kept secret right under everyone's nose. Its newest exhibit includes private journals, prints and manifestos by UW art students.

UW astronomer Sarah Ballard is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may host.

University of Washington doctoral candidate Maria Quintana (History) and alumnus Samuel Anderson (Anthropology, '00) are among the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2013, awarded each year by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

In a new book, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Anthony Greenwald, a social psychologist at the University of Washington, and co-author Mahzarin Banaji turn the conventional way people think about prejudice on its head.

ImpFest V features guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Eric Revis, trumpeter Cuong Vu and drummer Ted Poor in various combinations with their jazz students at the University of Washington.

Donald Hellmann, a professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, weighs in on North Korea's recent threats against the U.S., Japan, and South Korea on KUOW's Weekday, hosted by Steve Scher (first 15 minutes of program).