Natural Sciences Division

Lupita Tovar never expected to go to a four-year college. Now she's a UW graduate pursuing a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics.

A team led by the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has for the first time discovered magnetism in the 2-D world of monolayers.

Three years after Amazon Echo launched as a frivolous oddity, its maker now plans to put Alexa inside smart phones, refrigerators, vacuums and Ford cars. 

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.