Natural Sciences Division

Center for Conservation Biology director Dr. Sam Wasser comments on how DNA mapping illegal ivory can illustrate its wider connections to drug trafficking rings. 

Adam Summers, professor of biology at UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories, writes in The Journal of the San Juan Islands about his project called #ScanAllFish. 

African Americans make up 7 percent of American college and university faculty. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the UW, is featured.

When we feel something too hot or cold, our senses register pain. But why? And what’s causing it? 

In April, thousands of scientists will take to the streets to rally on behalf of publicly funded, openly communicated, evidence-based research.

Two University of Washington professors are taking aim at BS in a provocatively named new course they hope to teach this spring. 

Celeste Marion (BA, 2003) co-founded an innovative school for special education students in Cusco, Peru.

UW's Sapna Cheryan asks, “Do we want a society where each gender thinks they are smarter, or do we want one where boys and girls think the genders are equally smart?”

Here’s a reading list for designers in Trump's America. UW professors Carl Bergstrom (biology) and Jevin West (Information School) are mentioned.

A recent UW study analyzed the behavior of seven species of marine snails found in Washington waters and discovered that native and invasive snails use different cues to assess risk.

According to researchers from UW, the ability for rational decision-making extends pretty far to other members of the animal kingdom.

Paleontologists picking through fossils from Montana have discovered something unexpected — a new species of lizard from the late dinosaur era..

It can be hard to spot even glaring flaws in your relationship while you're in it. With that in mind, Business Insider rounded up seven science-backed indicators that there might be trouble.

Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, a pair of scientists at the UW, want to teach students how to survive the avalanche of false or misleading data shaken loose by shifts in media, technology and politics.

In a tiny island laboratory in the Northwesternmost corner of Washington, one marine biologist is on a mission: Scan every known fish species in the world.