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Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 11:15
Step inside the Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal and you'll see a lot of hurried faces peeking at the ceiling. Emily Levesque, an astronomer at the UW, is quoted. forbes.com
Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 11:00
A group of incoming freshman from Cornish College visited the UW's Speech and Hearing Clinic this week. king5.com
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 09:15
The race to build a computer powerful enough to predict the future, Thom Dunning is quoted. slate.com
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 09:15
The animal kingdom is home to all sorts of courageous youngsters. Nassima Bouzid, a doctoral candidate in the UW Department of Biology, is quoted. news.nationalgeographic.com
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 09:00
Young survivors of Hurricane Katrina, now in their early 20s, say that overcoming the mental strain of displacement is a matter of finding one safe place or reliable person. nytimes.com
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 09:00
A new study suggests that facial-recognition software could identify an individual's sexuality. Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West are quoted. newyorker.com
Thursday, September 7, 2017 - 09:30
The Population Health Initiative has awarded five pilot research grants to faculty-led teams from 10 different UW schools and colleges including the College of Arts & Sciences. washington.edu
Thursday, August 31, 2017 - 08:45
Can a baby learn a second language in an hour a day? A new UW I-LABS study says yes — as long as you’re not afraid of a little goo goo gaga. parentmap.com
Monday, August 28, 2017 - 16:15
University of Washington physicist Kai-Mei Fu discusses quantum internet. businessinsider.com
Monday, August 28, 2017 - 16:15
As he carefully liberates the fossilized skull of a T. Rex, the Burke Museum’s Bruce Crowley feels like one of the luckiest paleontologists alive. king5.com
Monday, August 28, 2017 - 16:00
Studies of transgender kids are revealing fascinating insights about gender in the brain scientificamerican.com
Friday, August 25, 2017 - 15:45
Amy Lambert spends most of her waking hours in search of the island marble; a rare butterfly. opb.org
Friday, August 25, 2017 - 14:45
Adam Summers, a dedicated biologist at the University of Washington, began his quest to scan every fish in the sea. techcrunch.com
Friday, August 25, 2017 - 14:45
Gossip over potential detection of colliding neutron stars has astronomers in a tizzy. Peter Yoachim, a UW astronomer, is quoted. nature.com
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 09:15
In a new study, orca pregnancy failures are up, salmon stocks are down, and fecal samples are in—thanks in part to a black Lab on dung duty. seattlemet.com