Natural Sciences Division

Mental illnesses and mood disorders are more prevalent in urban areas partly due to reduced access to nature, according to a new UW study.

From June 4 to 11, oyster lovers will be able to study, shuck and slurp up oysters to their hearts’ content at events across Puget Sound.

The University of Washington reported that the key to healthy urban living is finding connections to nature. 

Eight-year-old Rachel White’s transgender journey has only begun. Despite support at home and school, there is no easy path ahead.

Astronomers think they've found a "super Earth" that might be capable of sustaining life. UW scientists Eric Agol, Rory Barnes, Cecilia Bitz, Benjamin Charnay and Victoria Meadows were involved.

The Greek economy has shrunk by a staggering 25 percent since 2006, and the unemployment rate closed at 24.4 percent in January and is predicted to rise after the new package of austerity measures.

University leaders might talk about the virtues of diversity but they don't often embody it.

The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered key building blocks of life in the dust of a comet.

Wealthy technologist, Nathan Mygrvold, claims some of the world’s top experts on Earth-threatening asteroids are guilty of bad science. Željko Ivezic, professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.

If you’re in a relationship and things have cooled down between the sheets, don't panic.

New work from the UW Clean Energy Institute suggests cheap energy in the form of solar cells is closer than we think.

Statisticians at the University of Washington developed the first model for projecting population that factors in the vagaries of migration.

Nathan P. Myhrvold, a former chief technologist at Microsoft and compiler of a six-volume compendium of cooking knowledge, has questioned NASA’s analysis of asteroids using heat emissions.

Many readers of The New York Times article about rapamycin claimed they would just say no to such a drug. Rapamycin was tested during a study of dogs at the UW to see if it could slow aging.

54 percent of humanity now lives in cities, and two-thirds will by 2050—we may grow increasingly disconnected from the natural world around us.