Research

In 1931, a condition called “premenstrual tension” was described for the first time in a scientific study by gynecologist Robert Frank.

Are police making too many stops for minor issues, and could the number of violent confrontations between police and civilians be reduced by reducing the number of confrontations over all?

"This summer, NPR's science desk is thinking about waves, of all kinds — ocean, gravitational, even stadium waves. But what is a wave, anyway?" writes NPR's Joe Palca.

Bill Radke speaks with UW professor Adam Summers about his project that aims to scan all the species of fish in the world.

Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson teams up with artist Darius Kazemi to create a Twitter bot with a mission — and a personality.

DXARTS faculty and students find artistic inspiration in the tools of neuroscience.

A&S faculty, students, and alumni are making remarkable breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain.

A question-and-answer game tests the potential for direct brain-to-brain connection.

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

Jason Yeatman's research may eventually lead to personalized intervention programs for dyslexia.

Bing Brunton searches for meaningful patterns in data from electrical signals in the brain.

Decomposing trees release a huge volume of lagging CO2, killing species and hobbling efforts to fight global warming.

Bill Radke talks to UW history professor Margaret O'Mara about unity at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and how the elections of the past compare to the 2016 conventions.

Astrobiologists debate which chemical signatures would hint at life on other worlds.

UW biology professor Adam Summers installed a small computed tomography, or CT, scanner at the UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories and launched an ambitious project.