Natural Sciences Division

That fruit fly appearing moments after you poured that first glass of cabernet, has just used a poppy-seed-sized brain to conduct a finely-choreographed search and arrive in time for happy hour.

The same physics that gives stability to tornadoes lies at the heart of new UW research and could lead to a better understanding of nuclear dynamics in studying fission, superconductors and the workings of neutron stars.

The driven goalkeeper is so much more than a rising star in the Pac-12. She's a molecular biology major. She has a 3.96 GPA. And she is the first Husky student-athlete in 20 years to win UW's prestigious president's medal as the university's top student in her class.

Shannon Narasimhan ('07) is making her mark as a physical therapist working with performers in the Big Apple and on tour.

Frustrated by the current funding model for scientific research, Cindy Wu ('11) and Denny Luan ('11) created a crowdfunding platform for research.

Scientists can now accurately predict if you have the blues -- just by looking at your Twitter feed. Tyler McCormick, assistant professor of statistics, is quoted.

By adding a precise mix of dyes, hydrogen peroxide, a digestive enzyme and glycerin to a genetically unmodified dead fish, UW biology professor Adam Summers was able to generate photos of colorful, glowing fish skeletons.

A UW professor has come up with a 10-minute test to measure the fervor of your Seattle Seahawks fandom.

University of Washington microbiologist Angela Rasmussen discuss cloning animals as part of a panel on the safety of cloned meat.

University of Washington astronomers and colleagues have measured the distance to galaxies six billion light-years away -- about halfway back to the Big Bang -- to an accuracy of just 1 percent.

As Buddhists see it, and as scientists increasingly agree, all organisms are necessarily -- even marvelously and gloriously -- impermanent.

If you're a sparrow and you've flitted into another sparrow's territory, you can expect some warnings before you get attacked -- but not always, and that's puzzling University of Washington researchers.

Turns out your vocabulary doesn't have to be top-notch to help your kid learn more words - baby talk is the key, University of Washington research shows.

A UW physicist who has been looking for evidence that causality can go backward in time says he's making progress on nailing down the theoretical foundations for such quantum weirdness.

Although a population of bacteria may be genetically identical, individual bacteria within that population can act in radically different ways.