Research

A new video looks back on the outstanding work of our students, faculty, and alumni in 2015.

The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest storehouses of carbon and home to an abundance of animals and birds.

Using high-speed infrared cameras and 3-D-printed robotic flowers, scientists have now learned how this insect juggles these complex sensing and control challenges.

David Hyde talks with University of Washington philosophy professor Michael Blake about the ethics of proposals by companies to hire more foreign workers.

Pepper Schwartz talks about planning weddings, even when there's no wedding to plan.

Seattle is known as home to some of the world’s most successful corporations, but also to some of the most vigorous anti-capitalist protests. UW history professor Margaret O'Mara is quoted.

Aiming to make the first portrait of the hungry monster at the center of our galaxy, astronomers built “a telescope as big as the world.”

Graduate students at the University of Washington have found a way to detect volcanic activity in the atmospheres of exoplanets

It is well known that climate change will warm ocean waters, but dissolved oxygen levels also decrease as water warms. A new paper by UW researchers in Science magazine reveals likely consequences.

How you carry yourself in a job interview makes as much of an impression as the words you say. Valerie Manusov, a communications professor at the UW, is quoted.

Over the past decade, illegal poaching of wildlife has quickly caught up to habitat destruction as a leading cause of wildlife loss in many countries.

A new documentary film captures Mize's recovery as he worked with Diane Kendall, now a University of Washington professor of speech and hearing sciences.

A new paper from UW researchers suggests as global warming continues marine animals will need more oxygen even as their supply diminishes in warmer waters.

The Atlantic published an interview with Bettina Shell Duncan, professor in the Biocultural Anthropology Program about her research of the past two decades on female genital cutting.

One of the most important—and debated—decisions among mixed expat families is which language to speak at home.