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The UW Center for Human Rights announced it is suing the CIA for withholding information on a United States-trained El Salvadoran commander who has been implicated in civilian deaths.

Earth-like exoplanets may have magnetic fields capable of protecting life according to researchers at the Virtual Planetary Laboratory based at the UW.

Seeking justice for survivors of a massacre in El Salvador, the Center for Human Rights is suing the agency over withholding public records

Anthropology's Donald Grayson says evidence that humans hunted mammoths is friarly rare. 

Rural communities that host prisons support punitive criminal laws and policies because they profit prison growth, writes Rebecca Thorpe, assistant professor of political science.

Astronomers from the Virtual Planetary Laboratory have created a way to rank exoplanets to help prioritize which of the thousands discovered warrant close inspection in the search for life.

Christopher Parker, an associate professor at the University of Washington, talks about how the political conversation may shift if change averse elements of the Republican party take control.

Blue jeans, beards, body adornments, natural foods, legal marijuana, gay marriage, and single parenthood — it is now clear that the hippies won the culture wars.

A UW human rights project is suing the Central Intelligence Agency for refusing to declassify and turn over documents relating to the U.S. role in El Salvador’s civil war.

Joanne Silberner, UW artist-in-residence in communication, interviews Margaret Chan, who has led the World Health Organization for the last nine years.

A new study from UW I-LABS suggests how strongly children identify with math can be used to predict how high they will score on a standardized math tests.

"The widely proclaimed 'land rush' to the Arctic, aimed at oil and gas most of all, is a myth," writes Scott L. Montgomery, UW lecturer in international studies.

If we really want to make sense of the Summer of Trump we should take a closer look at the Summer of Teddy, writes Margaret O’Mara, UW associate professor of history.

A UW scientific team and biotech partner have created an innovative tool to directly detect the delicate, single-molecule interactions between DNA and enzymatic proteins.

There are a number of ways to gauge contemporary trends in the militarization of space. One way is to look at how countries develop and test dual-use space technologies.