Natural Sciences Division

The Implicit Association Test reveals attitudes we may not be aware we have, even regarding Presidential candidates.

Professor Emeritus David Thouless is the Physics Department's second Nobel Prize recipient. 

Last week, the science media was abuzz with reports that dark energy might not exist. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, postdoctoral associate in physics at the UW, is quoted. 

The University of Washington’s computer science department has been working hard for the past decade to create a more inclusive culture for women.

UW biologists use Tucker, a rescue dog, to gather information about killer whales. 

NASA’s rebooted mission, K2, seeks out new worlds closely orbiting stars smaller than the Sun.

Dr. Hunter Hoffman with the Human Interface Technology Lab at UW, and Dr. David Patterson, a UW psychologist, are harnessing the power of distraction created by virtual reality to block pain.

Timea Tihanyi with the UW's School of Art and Jayadev Athreya, associate professor of mathematics at the UW, say art and math are much more similar than we often think. 

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a prestigious fellowship to University of Washington assistant professor Thomas Rothvoss.

One of the four tell-tale signs that a marriage could end in divorce, as determined by UW psychology professor John Gottman.

The arrest of a key member of an ivory-trafficking group is a bright spot in an otherwise complicated season for African elephants

One in five Americans have been in a non-monogamous relationship at some point in their lives, according to an April 2016 study. 

Of the six winners of Nobel Prizes affiliated with American universities so far this year, all are foreign born. 

More information surrounding the existence of Proxima B, the Earth-sized exoplanet near our sun, has come to light. Rory Barnes, professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.

A total of 203 people have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, but only two were women.