Natural Sciences Division

A team of scientists has identified a new species of “pre-mammal” based on fossils unearthed in Zambia’s Luangwa Basin.

The commercial life sciences industry in the Seattle area isn't the only part of the sector that's booming.

The University of Washington Astronomy Department has compiled a list of their favorite places to watch meteors.

Researchers have identified a fossil found in the San Juan Islands as a dinosaur bone dating back 80 million years.

Faculty have the rare opportunity to fully immerse themselves in a scholarly or pedagogical project during sabbaticals.

How elephant dung and ivory tusk samples can help save the African elephant

A UW study offers new insight on restorative vision and the human experience.

The University of Washington has shown for the first time what the world looks like for someone fitted with a bionic eye.

New visual simulations give us a glimpse of what it might look like to see the world through bionic eyes.

Crystals play an important role in the formation of substances from skeletons and shells to soils and semiconductor materials. But many aspects of their formation are shrouded in mystery.

New findings by researchers at the UW's Institute for Learning Brain & Sciences demonstrate an early social behavior "gaze shifting" that is linked to infants’ ability to learn new language sounds.

Illegal wildlife trade has become the world’s fourth-largest international organized crime, according to a recent UW Biology study.

A puzzling stellar phenomenon may not be what other astronomers had reported.

Energy experts project solar power to dominate by 2040, thanks to cheap technology and trillions of dollars in solar research. Some of that research is coming out of labs at the UW.

A new research project led by the University of Washington aims to uncover the aeronautical secrets of some of nature’s best designed flyers.