Research

Most illegally poached African elephant ivory can be traced back to just two areas of Africa, research shows.

The key to saving elephants from poachers could be locked up in the animals' DNA, according to the results of a new study.

Most illegal ivory comes from animals killed in two areas in Africa: Tanzania and a protected area that spans Gabon, Republic of Congo, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.

Investigators who collected DNA from the tusks of slain elephants have identified two large areas where the slaughter has been occurring

Biology Professor Keiko Torii and her team have identified a mechanism that some plant cells use to receive complex and contradictory messages from their neighbors.

Research from UW Biology Professor Tom Daniel and colleagues shows Hawkmoths see at dusk by slowing down visual processing in the brain.

A new video looks back on the outstanding work of our students, faculty, and alumni in 2015.

The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest storehouses of carbon and home to an abundance of animals and birds.

Using high-speed infrared cameras and 3-D-printed robotic flowers, scientists have now learned how this insect juggles these complex sensing and control challenges.

David Hyde talks with University of Washington philosophy professor Michael Blake about the ethics of proposals by companies to hire more foreign workers.

Pepper Schwartz talks about planning weddings, even when there's no wedding to plan.

Seattle is known as home to some of the world’s most successful corporations, but also to some of the most vigorous anti-capitalist protests. UW history professor Margaret O'Mara is quoted.

Aiming to make the first portrait of the hungry monster at the center of our galaxy, astronomers built “a telescope as big as the world.”

Graduate students at the University of Washington have found a way to detect volcanic activity in the atmospheres of exoplanets

It is well known that climate change will warm ocean waters, but dissolved oxygen levels also decrease as water warms. A new paper by UW researchers in Science magazine reveals likely consequences.