Population Health

 In this TED Talk, Peter Ward, paleontologist and astrobiologist at the UW, explains what we can learn from previous mass extinctions.

A UW anthropologist explores the potential impact of making PrEP, an HIV prevention drug, more available to teens.

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

"Despite its current focus on addressing police brutality, BLM’s agenda isn’t confined to this issue.

The number of HIV/AIDS deaths worldwide each year has fallen since peaking in 2005, but the number of new HIV infections is up in 74 countries, according to a new study.

Over the past decade, the rate of new HIV infections has increased in 74 countries, according to a new study.

HIV transmission is highly unlikely among straight couples who have sex without condoms when one partner carries the virus but takes medication, new research suggests.

A team of Pakistani scientists created a phone service that could accurately point health workers to areas where the disease was emerging.

Scientists for the first time have directly detected key organic compounds in a comet.

Abigail Swann makes a point of telling students what she's doing to reduce her own carbon footprint when teaching about potential climate change solutions.

A video on what it means to talk about race. Two College of Arts and Science students featured.

I-1515 would amend the state’s discrimination law so that public and private entities could restrict  “private facilities” to “biologically” male or female.

Researchers at the University of Washington are running a study that might find the cure for getting older.

A school in Westport was built with a special tsunami safe zone on its roof. Randy LeVeque, professor of applied mathematics at the UW, is interviewed.

The world’s cities are collecting ever-increasing amounts of data, and it is time for mechanisms to prevent abuse writes Associate Professor Philip Howard.