Natural Sciences Division

Four graduate students are receiving the A&S Graduate Medal along with their PhDs.

With degrees in music and speech & hearing sciences, Addison Francis wants to help singers and others protect their voices.

An unexpected rain of spiders led to a lovely Twitter geek-out between astronomers and arachnologists.

At the University of Washington, students are learning to navigate the hazards of our information-addled age.

Considerable attention has been devoted to the difficulties facing women in computer sciences, the problems and the search for solutions extend across the range of STEM fields.

Bill Radke speaks with professor Cheryl Kaiser from the psychology department at the University of Washington about the bystander effect. 

Astronomers need to know how stars form and black holes burst -- and how to pry that information from the many terabytes of data that will stream from next-generation telescopes.

Research for the book took him around the country, including to the University Washington, where he sat in on biology classes taught by University of Washington lecturer Jennifer Doherty.

 University of Washington psychologist John Gottman identified behaviors that derail conversations so consistently that he refers to them as “the four horsemen...”

Calling all citizen scientists: The Australian National University wants you to join the search for supernovae.

Breaking from the general poleward movement of many species, flowering trees take an unexpected turn.

Rising global temperatures negatively impact all living beings.

David James, a visiting scientist with the University of Washington Department of Astronomy, assisted in the discovery of an exoplanet.

A University of Washington seminar, promises to help students develop a BS detector — and it’s become a global phenomenon.

In the wake of the death of 85-year-old Min Bahadur Sherchan, officials in Nepal are considering whether to place an upper age limit on adventurers seeking to climb Mount Everest.