Natural Sciences Division

When space tourism is in full swing, you’ll need to know how to get around foreign planets. Biology Ph.D. candidate Eleanor Lutz is already making maps to guide us.

Although pay equity for women has improved, men are still paid more for the same work. Why is the problem even worse in King County than elsewhere?

Research shows that in the U.S., both adults and older children believe that math is a male activity. 

This week’s discovery of seven planets around a distant star has a connection right here at the University of Washington. The star is called TRAPPIST-1 and the scientist is Eric Agol.

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.