Natural Sciences Division

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.

"The trauma of exposure to these videos sits on top of layers of trauma that go all the way back to slavery. It is all one and the same," writes Monnica Williams for PBS.

One of the newest chew toys in the presidential campaign is “implicit bias,” a term Mike Pence repeatedly took exception to in the vice-presidential debate.

David Thouless, a British-born professor emeritus at the University of Washington, has been awarded half of this year’s Nobel physics prize.

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three men — all born in Britain, but working at U.S. universities.

One of the newest chew toys in the presidential campaign is “implicit bias,” a term Mike Pence repeatedly took exception to in the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday.

David J. Thouless from the UW, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to physicists David Thouless of the UW, F. Duncan Haldane of Princeton University and J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University.

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.