Natural Sciences Division

Astrobiologists debate which chemical signatures would hint at life on other worlds.

UW biology professor Adam Summers installed a small computed tomography, or CT, scanner at the UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories and launched an ambitious project.

UW Campus Sustainability Fund awarded $150,000 to install building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and rooftop photovoltaics (PV) on the new Life Sciences Building.

Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Trento in Italy have engineered a protein that blocks cancer-promoting “messages” in human cells. Gabriele Varani, professor of chem

Many claim jet lag is worse and lasts longer when you travel east than west. Horacio de la Iglesia, professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.

Faculty in the Department of Biology are working to make STEM courses more equitable through innovative teaching.

A walkthrough of the first two floors of the new Life Sciences Complex where UW Biology with pioneer boundary-pushing scientific research and teaching.

Vaughan’s team modified a protocol to “swell” cellular structures, bringing them within the range of common laboratory microscopes using relatively simple methods and reagents.

A big step in helping perovskites reach their potential as the basis for far cheaper and more efficient types of solar cells came this week from a team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Ocean acidification is bad for mussels. You may think you’ve heard this story before (cf. clams, oysters, scallops) but wait! This time it’s a little different.

The strong, stretchy threads that mussels use to stay put won't work as well in warmer, more acidic waters.

A new study creates a mathematical model of teaching to show how the exaggerated sounds of "parentese" helps babies learn language.

Imagine you are an astronaut, chosen for the first manned mission to Mars. After years of preparation, you are ready to set foot on the Red Planet — and you develop a kidney stone.

Using observations of storms in the solar system, a team of astronomers has extrapolated to predict lightning on several exoplanets.

The Stranger covers two UW studies in this roundup. One on gene expression surviving death and another on climate scientists' credibility.