Research

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.

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.

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. 

An unexpected rain of spiders led to a lovely Twitter geek-out between astronomers and arachnologists.

At the University of Washington, students are learning to navigate the hazards of our information-addled age.

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.

Bill Radke speaks with professor Cheryl Kaiser from the psychology department at the University of Washington about the bystander effect. 

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.

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.

Calling all citizen scientists: The Australian National University wants you to join the search for supernovae.

Breaking from the general poleward movement of many species, flowering trees take an unexpected turn.

Rising global temperatures negatively impact all living beings.

David James, a visiting scientist with the University of Washington Department of Astronomy, assisted in the discovery of an exoplanet.

UW sociology researcher, Tim Thomas, on a migration of historic proportions—African-Americans leaving central Seattle and being pushed south, driven by high rents.

Laurie Marhoefer, UW Assistant Professor of History, on a forgotten legacy of WWI: the modern gay rights movement.