Natural Sciences Division

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.

"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.