Research

Astronomers think they've found a "super Earth" that might be capable of sustaining life. UW scientists Eric Agol, Rory Barnes, Cecilia Bitz, Benjamin Charnay and Victoria Meadows were involved.

The Greek economy has shrunk by a staggering 25 percent since 2006, and the unemployment rate closed at 24.4 percent in January and is predicted to rise after the new package of austerity measures.

Ph.D. Candidates Clint Work and Seonhee Kim co-published a piece on developments in South Korea’s space program, highlighting the military and economic logics.

The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered key building blocks of life in the dust of a comet.

Wealthy technologist, Nathan Mygrvold, claims some of the world’s top experts on Earth-threatening asteroids are guilty of bad science. Željko Ivezic, professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.

One sentence in a 1986 mass-market magazine continues to sway court cases involving sex offenders.

New work from the UW Clean Energy Institute suggests cheap energy in the form of solar cells is closer than we think.

Thanks to the work of UW geographer Kam Wing Chan, we know Shanghai, Beijing and other urban areas in China discriminate against the children of low-income migrant workers in public education.

Statisticians at the University of Washington developed the first model for projecting population that factors in the vagaries of migration.

Nathan P. Myhrvold, a former chief technologist at Microsoft and compiler of a six-volume compendium of cooking knowledge, has questioned NASA’s analysis of asteroids using heat emissions.

A mysterious set of 9,000-year-old bones, unearthed nearly 20 years ago in Washington, is finally going home.

Many readers of The New York Times article about rapamycin claimed they would just say no to such a drug. Rapamycin was tested during a study of dogs at the UW to see if it could slow aging.

Linda Nash, professor of history at the UW, delves into the historic depths of how chance and natural resources fueled this booming metropolis of trade and expansion.

54 percent of humanity now lives in cities, and two-thirds will by 2050—we may grow increasingly disconnected from the natural world around us.

An ongoing study out of the University of Washington hopes to yield new understanding of how and why the signs of aging happen, and potentially help to extend the lives of dogs.