Natural Sciences Division

UW Professor of Psychology Kristina Olson discusses what alarmist articles often get wrong about transgender children.

Ryan Lafferty, a physics teacher at Bellevue’s International School and UW alumnus, scores $25,000 Milken Educator Award.

Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including UW's Scott Anderson announced that a distant quasar ran out of gas, revealing that our skies are still. ever-changing.

Samuel Wasser, director of the UW Center for Conservation Biology, speaks to Al Jazeera America on how to combat elephant poaching.

Pioneer, adventurist, and 'Renaissance man' Doug Walker remembered

Cheryl R. Kaiser, an associate professor in Psychology, discusses how the current structure of workplace diversity initiatives may not yield success.

John Cramer, a professor emeritus in the UW Department of Physics, has created two different renditions of what the big bang might have sounded like.

UW instructor Yaffa Maritz discusses the benefits of mindfulness practices.

Eric Agol, professor of astronomy, will receive the 2016 Lecar Prize from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Dee Boersma, professor in Biology has studied Magellanic penguins there for more than 30 years.

UW Biology Professor Janneke Hille Ris Lambers and student Leander Anderegg release new study.

Through a pilot program, parents learn how they can help their children develop the skills of self-regulation and effortful control.

Faculty across the College recommend a favorite book related to their field.

Conservation dogs sniff out endangered species.

A collaboration between UW developmental psychologists and computer scientists aims to enable robots to learn in the same way that children naturally do.