Natural Sciences Division

After Monday's presidential debate, MSNBC's Chuck Todd critiqued the candidates' performances -- and ruffled feathers online with an unusual denunciation.

UW biologist Dee Boersma and her colleagues combed through 28 years’ worth of data on Magellanic penguins for signs that natural selection may be acting on certain traits. 

Although most white Americans self-report little to no racial bias against black people, they tend to show robust implicit, or unconscious, biases.

Big Data is everywhere — even the skies. UW Astronomer Andrew Connolly shows how large amounts of data are being collected about our universe, and how it could lead to new discoveries.

Teachers at the Burke's DIG Field School in Montana had a close encounter with a long-buried T. rex.

For years we have been told that jellyfish are growing in numbers and will swarm the oceans. But this may not be true

New study by researchers at UW's Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences shows how working in groups increases children's engagement in STEM.

A 2010 study showed that 20 percent of lizard species would likely be extinct by 2080 due to climate change. Now researchers say it may be much worse.

The corpse flower at the Volunteer Park Conservatory may be a dud. The flower, on loan from the UW biology department, has been removed after it failed to reach its full bloom.

Researchers at the University of Washington are hoping to answer that question. NPR's Scott Simon talks to biology and pathology professor Daniel Promislow about the Dog Aging Project.

KOMO Radio's Herb Weisbaum interviews Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology at the UW, about the scandal surrounding politician Anthony Weiner. 

The 12-year-old corpse plant, Amorphophallus titanum, is beginning to bloom at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory.

An African elephant census financed by Paul Allen has found that populations fell by 30 percent in seven years. But there were some bright spots where animal numbers were on the rise.

The discovery of an Earth-size planet around the nearest star to Earth has generated a lot of buzz, and even speculation that a robotic probe may soon visit the world.

University of Washington astronomer Rory Barnes says Proxima Centauri b is the biggest discovery in 20 years for planet hunters like himself.