Natural Sciences Division

How elephant dung and ivory tusk samples can help save the African elephant

A UW study offers new insight on restorative vision and the human experience.

The University of Washington has shown for the first time what the world looks like for someone fitted with a bionic eye.

New visual simulations give us a glimpse of what it might look like to see the world through bionic eyes.

Crystals play an important role in the formation of substances from skeletons and shells to soils and semiconductor materials. But many aspects of their formation are shrouded in mystery.

New findings by researchers at the UW's Institute for Learning Brain & Sciences demonstrate an early social behavior "gaze shifting" that is linked to infants’ ability to learn new language sounds.

Illegal wildlife trade has become the world’s fourth-largest international organized crime, according to a recent UW Biology study.

A puzzling stellar phenomenon may not be what other astronomers had reported.

Energy experts project solar power to dominate by 2040, thanks to cheap technology and trillions of dollars in solar research. Some of that research is coming out of labs at the UW.

A new research project led by the University of Washington aims to uncover the aeronautical secrets of some of nature’s best designed flyers.

New research shows that mosquitoes find targets by following the scent of the air we exhale, then using sight and body heat sensors to close in.

Study findings highlight need for more cultural-sensitivity training of caregivers, UW author says.

The capital retrofit project has drastically reduced ventilation system waste in the iconic campus building

A team of biologists from the University of Washington and the California Institute of Technology has cracked the cues mosquitoes use to find us.

UW researchers have developed a new, long-acting malaria drug that they believe may help fight one of the world's biggest killers.