Natural Sciences Division

This year’s Perseid meteor shower is expected to be unusually intense. UW astronomer Woody Sullivan is quoted.

Bill Radke speaks with UW professor Adam Summers about his project that aims to scan all the species of fish in the world.

DXARTS faculty and students find artistic inspiration in the tools of neuroscience.

A question-and-answer game tests the potential for direct brain-to-brain connection.

Philosophers and scientists collaborate to explore ethical questions raised by neuroscience.

Jason Yeatman's research may eventually lead to personalized intervention programs for dyslexia.

Bing Brunton searches for meaningful patterns in data from electrical signals in the brain.

Decomposing trees release a huge volume of lagging CO2, killing species and hobbling efforts to fight global warming.

Astrobiologists debate which chemical signatures would hint at life on other worlds.

UW biology professor Adam Summers installed a small computed tomography, or CT, scanner at the UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories and launched an ambitious project.

UW Campus Sustainability Fund awarded $150,000 to install building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and rooftop photovoltaics (PV) on the new Life Sciences Building.

Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Trento in Italy have engineered a protein that blocks cancer-promoting “messages” in human cells. Gabriele Varani, professor of chem

Many claim jet lag is worse and lasts longer when you travel east than west. Horacio de la Iglesia, professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.

Faculty in the Department of Biology are working to make STEM courses more equitable through innovative teaching.

A walkthrough of the first two floors of the new Life Sciences Complex where UW Biology with pioneer boundary-pushing scientific research and teaching.