Natural Sciences Division

Researchers at the UW I-LABS begin to understand infants’ imitations.

Wendy Stone, director of the UW’s Research in Early Autism Detection and Intervention Lab, helped develop content for See Amazing in All Children.

Brandi Cossairt, UW professor of chemistry, will receive five-year funding through Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

UW Professor of Psychology Tony Greenwald speaks about implicit bias.

"Origins: Life and the Universe,” will pair live performances of new compositions with video and slideshow scenes depicting cosmic events like the Big Bang.

This is the topic of the NASA Astrobiology Debates, where elite college teams from across the country grapple with ethical, political and scientific questions.

The fellowship includes a five-year research grant of $875,000.

Two teams of University of Washington researchers were members of the multinational, decades-long scientific groups that won.

UW Psychology Professor Sapna Cheryan,discusses why high school girls don't pursue math and science. 

Earth-like exoplanets may have magnetic fields capable of protecting life according to researchers at the Virtual Planetary Laboratory based at the UW.

Astronomers from the Virtual Planetary Laboratory have created a way to rank exoplanets to help prioritize which of the thousands discovered warrant close inspection in the search for life.

A new study from UW I-LABS suggests how strongly children identify with math can be used to predict how high they will score on a standardized math tests.

A UW scientific team and biotech partner have created an innovative tool to directly detect the delicate, single-molecule interactions between DNA and enzymatic proteins.

Thanks to UW researchers, a 680-ton superconducting magnet is secure in its new home and nearly ready for a new era of discovery in particle physics.

For 20 years, UW students have participated in field research on a tropical island that's home to more than a thousand monkeys.