Natural Sciences Division

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.

Researchers hope to recruit duck hunters to provide hybrid duck specimens for a study at the University of Washington's Burke Museum, to determine if hybrids are the result of forced copulation.

Cheryl Kaiser, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, explained that there are many subtle ways holiday parties can be less enjoyable for members of minority groups.

A scalyhead sculpin is a nondescript fish but "stripped" to its skeleton and stained, it becomes striking enough to be among the 14 photos by Adam Summers, professor of biology, on display at the Seattle Aquarium.

CNN is honoring 10 emerging ideas in technology and related fields. Number six on the list is a UW team that managed to connect two brains using non-invasive technology.

In 1948 the president of Costa Rica announced something truly extraordinary: Henceforth, the nation would take the almost unheard-of step of renouncing its military.

According to chemistry professor David Ginger, the institute will accelerate the pace of both scientific discovery and technology transfer while educating the next generation of clean energy leaders.

"Right now, solar cells are made like high-technology, like computer chips, but we want to make them cheap like newspaper," chemistry professor David Ginger told Inslee.

A poetic intersection between life and science, art and photography. The Guardian column Grrl Scientist profiles the work of Adam Summers, professor of biology.

Quantum entanglement, a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as "spooky action at a distance," could be even spookier than Einstein perceived.

Like humans, some song sparrows are more effusive than others, at least when it comes to defending their territories.

Two years ago, biochemist Roy Black had an intriguing theory about the origins of life. One problem: he had nowhere to test it.