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Breaking bottlenecks to the electronic-photonic information technology revolution
UW chemistry professor emeritus Larry Dalton is part of the research team that has achieved an optical communications breakthrough that could revolutionize information technology.
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Preparing Doctors for Challenging Conversations
Speech & Hearing students role-play as patients with communication disorders to help med students develop communication strategies.
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Muggle hacks: How to use tech to become an actual wizard like Harry Potter
Department of Mathematics professor, Gunther Uhlmann, proposed a series of equations which could be used to build an invisibility cloak.
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How to Build a Midlife Worth Living
UW department of psychology professor Marsha Linehan's Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is being used to help women struggling in midlife.
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Stressed-out teens: Schools take new approaches to avert tragedy
UW department of psychology associate professor Kate McLaughlin weighs in on stress and children // Video
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Circumbinary castaways: Short-period binary systems can eject orbiting worlds
New research from the UW Department of Astronomy helps to explain why astronomers have detected few circumbinary planets.
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After 30 years of R&D, breakthrough announced in dark matter detection technology, definitive search to begin for axion particles
The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) at the University of Washington is the world's first experiment to be sensitive enough to "hear" the signs of dark matter axions.
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If Tiny Dark Matter Particle Exists, This Experiment Is Now Ready to Find It
The research team at the UW have announced that the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is officially sensitive enough to find the theoretically predicted axion.
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The free and easy way to help kids develop language skills, according to MIT research
Co-director of the University of Washington Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Patricia Kuhl's set of now-famous experiments are referenced.
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Solar-powered innovation on the Life Sciences Building
The new Life Sciences Building features windows that allow the sun to naturally light the space.
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‘Differences can be a part of their skills’: Pilot program at UW offers on-the-job training for young adults with autism
The UW is supporting young adults with autism in gaining job skills and experiences to take with them to today's workplaces.
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Decade of fossil collecting in Africa gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence of dinosaurs
UW biology professor, Christian Sidor, digs into the insights from over 2,200 fossils and counting.
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Decade of fossil collecting in Africa gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence of dinosaurs
Christian Sidor, UW biology professor and curator at the Burke, weighs in on a decade's worth of research from the Southern Hemisphere and the over 2,200 fossils collected.
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A Quantum Leap
A physics student explores the possibilities of quantum computing — with help from a Microsoft Research Fellowship.
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Learning Happiness
A new psychology course pairs scientific research on happiness with activities that promote a positive outlook.