Natural Sciences Division

Thouless, emeritus professor in Physics, is the 2016 winner for his work on exotic matter. 

If UW's Robert Paine had been a physicist, chemist or cell biologist, he likely would have been in contention for a Nobel Prize for coining the term "keystone species."

Clinics are popping up across the country to help kids as young as 3 who might be transgender, but some say it's too much, too soon.

Seattle Children's Hospital is set to open a gender services clinic for transgender children as young as 8 years old.

 In this TED Talk, Peter Ward, paleontologist and astrobiologist at the UW, explains what we can learn from previous mass extinctions.

After Monday's presidential debate, MSNBC's Chuck Todd critiqued the candidates' performances -- and ruffled feathers online with an unusual denunciation.

UW biologist Dee Boersma and her colleagues combed through 28 years’ worth of data on Magellanic penguins for signs that natural selection may be acting on certain traits. 

Although most white Americans self-report little to no racial bias against black people, they tend to show robust implicit, or unconscious, biases.

Big Data is everywhere — even the skies. UW Astronomer Andrew Connolly shows how large amounts of data are being collected about our universe, and how it could lead to new discoveries.

Teachers at the Burke's DIG Field School in Montana had a close encounter with a long-buried T. rex.

For years we have been told that jellyfish are growing in numbers and will swarm the oceans. But this may not be true

New study by researchers at UW's Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences shows how working in groups increases children's engagement in STEM.

A 2010 study showed that 20 percent of lizard species would likely be extinct by 2080 due to climate change. Now researchers say it may be much worse.

The corpse flower at the Volunteer Park Conservatory may be a dud. The flower, on loan from the UW biology department, has been removed after it failed to reach its full bloom.

Researchers at the University of Washington are hoping to answer that question. NPR's Scott Simon talks to biology and pathology professor Daniel Promislow about the Dog Aging Project.