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Researchers discover how petunias know when to smell good
Good timing is a matter of skill. You would certainly dress up for an afternoon business meeting, but not an evening session of binge-watching Netflix. If you were just a few hours off in your wardrobe...
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In a cosmic ‘call to arms,’ UW astronomer proposes new deep-space telescope...
Astronomers usually spend their time contemplating the heavens above. But one group of dedicated stargazers has challenged the community to look instead to the future, envisioning the tools for...
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UW chemists help develop a novel drug to fight malaria
An international team of scientists — led by researchers from the University of Washington and two other institutions — has announced that a new compound to fight malaria is ready for human trials. In...
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UW researchers show that the mosquito smells, before it sees, a bloody feast
The itchy marks left by the punctured bite of a mosquito are more than pesky, unwelcomed mementos of a day at the lake. These aggravating bites can also be conduits for hitchhiking pathogens to worm...
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UW researchers model tsunami hazards on the Northwest coast
The coast of the Pacific Northwest from space.SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, ORBIMAGE Recent press and social media coverage have reminded residents of the Pacific Northwest that...
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Rare nautilus sighted for the first time in three decades
In early August, biologist Peter Ward returned from the South Pacific with news that he encountered an old friend, one he hadn’t seen in over three decades. The University of Washington professor had...
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September launch could give UW team rare measurements of ‘dusty plasmas’
Researchers from the University of Washington are awaiting the launch an over 50-foot-long rocket from a launch site in Norway into the upper reaches of the atmosphere to observe and measure a puzzling...
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A more acidic ocean will bend the mermaid’s wineglass
New research from the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories shows that a more acidic ocean can weaken the protective shell of a delicate alga. The findings, published Sept. 9 in the...
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Cooled down and charged up, a giant magnet is ready for its new mission
The fully assembled magnet in its new home.Fermilab The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory — or Fermilab — announced that a 680-ton superconducting magnet is secure in its new home and nearly ready...
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A new single-molecule tool to observe enzymes at work
A team of scientists at the University of Washington and the biotechnology company Illumina have created an innovative tool to directly detect the delicate, single-molecule interactions between DNA and...
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Chemistry’s Brandi Cossairt named a 2015 Packard Fellow
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named the University of Washington’s Brandi Cossairt as one of 18 Packard Fellows for 2015. The Packard Foundation chooses scientists in the early stages of...
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In astronomy-themed concert, Benaroya Hall launches audience to the cosmos
Andromeda galaxy.NASA/JPL-Caltech A Nov. 7 concert in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall promises to offer the audience a decidedly stellar musical experience. The event, “Origins: Life and the Universe,” will...
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UW scientists are the first to simulate 3-D exotic clouds on an exoplanet
Artistic depiction of exoplanet GJ1214b.Wikimedia Commons, Tyrogthekreeper Scientists have catalogued nearly 2,000 exoplanets around stars near and far. While most of these are giant and inhospitable,...
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Sequencing algae’s genome may aid biofuel production
There’s an ancient group of algae that evolved in the world’s oceans before our backboned ancestors crawled onto land. They are so numerous that their gigantic blooms can affect the weather, and they...
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Trees either hunker down or press on in a drying and warming western U.S....
La Plata Mountains.Leander Anderegg In the face of adverse conditions, people might feel tempted by two radically different options — hunker down and wait for conditions to improve, or press on and...
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UW conservationists celebrate new protected areas for Argentine penguins
Savoring the victory? Magellanic penguins at Punta Tombo.Dee Boersma They live far from the North Pole, but Christmas came early for the stout-bodied, black and white Magellanic penguins of...
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Now you see it: cloaking technology arrives sooner than UW mathematician...
Uhlmann’s theory in practice. Magnetic field lines (red) entering and exiting the spherical device developed by researchers at Autonomous University of Barcelona. The magnetic field is cloaked as it...
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Swartz Foundation grant to boost UW research in computational neuroscience
Two University of Washington faculty members have been awarded a grant from The Swartz Foundation to support research in theoretical neuroscience. The award establishes the UW as the latest of the...
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After Nobel win, neutrino endeavors snag Breakthrough Prize in Physics
Katherine B. Turner/U. of Washington Neutrinos may be small, but when it comes to prizes, they pack quite a punch. In October, it was announced that two scientists who headed international projects to...
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Stir no more: UW scientists show that draining speeds up bioassays
For many research scientists, idle time has long been an unwelcome feature of the discovery process. Advances in cellular biology have yielded popular and powerful tools to detect cellular proteins and...
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