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Homelessness and Pets
What the bond between homeless people and their pets demonstrates about compassion
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To connect biology with electronics, be rigid, yet flexible
David Ginger is lead author of a paper published in Nature Materials.
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Chemistry Professor, Dan Fu, Receives Prestigious 2017 Beckman Young Investigator Award
The University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences announced that Dan Fu, Assistant Professor in Chemistry received a 2017 Beckman Young Investigator award.
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Life might have a shot on planets orbiting dim red stars
If exoplanets around M dwarfs host life, it’s probably very different from that on Earth
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Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid
According to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, axions could theoretically condense into something like a Bose-Einstein condensate.
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Science Says Relationships Fail When These Four Things Happen
Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington discovered four clear indicators of relationship failure.
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Newly created 2-D magnet could point the way to slimmer, faster computers
A team led by researchers from the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published their results this week in the journal Nature.
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Scientists discover a 2-D magnet
A team led by the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has for the first time discovered magnetism in the 2-D world of monolayers.
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'Alexa, are you turning my kid into a jerk?'
Three years after Amazon Echo launched as a frivolous oddity, its maker now plans to put Alexa inside smart phones, refrigerators, vacuums and Ford cars.
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Tiny Jumping Spiders Can See the Moon
An unexpected rain of spiders led to a lovely Twitter geek-out between astronomers and arachnologists.
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How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide
At the University of Washington, students are learning to navigate the hazards of our information-addled age.
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For women in science, the challenges are personal
Considerable attention has been devoted to the difficulties facing women in computer sciences, the problems and the search for solutions extend across the range of STEM fields.
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Portland stabbing: What did we learn about the bystander effect?
Bill Radke speaks with professor Cheryl Kaiser from the psychology department at the University of Washington about the bystander effect.
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For Modern Astronomers, It’s Learn to Code or Get Left Behind
Astronomers need to know how stars form and black holes burst -- and how to pry that information from the many terabytes of data that will stream from next-generation telescopes.
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No to highlighters, yes to flash cards: new book explores science of learning
Research for the book took him around the country, including to the University Washington, where he sat in on biology classes taught by University of Washington lecturer Jennifer Doherty.