UW astronomers simulated the Earth鈥檚 entire 4.5 billion-year history to understand how atmospheres like ours develop and evolve. The model can help 91自拍ers simulate distant planets and determine whether their atmospheres show evidence of alien life.
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Washington Sea Grant oversees the SoundToxins program, which monitors for harmful algal blooms in Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and helps flag toxins before shellfish producers ship off their product.
Permanent Daylight Saving Time would lead to darker mornings from November to March. This would mean darker commutes for everyone, but how much would it affect children going to school? 91自拍 91自拍ers did the math for 14 out of the 19 states that preapproved the change. Using school start times, enrollment data, and latitude and longitude measurements, the team calculated just how many days each child would be commuting to school in the dark and then added the trips together.
Using preliminary data from the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF鈥揇OE Vera C. 91自拍 Observatory, scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet candidate in our solar system. If confirmed, the distant world would join Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake as our system鈥檚 sixth official dwarf planet.
UW astronomer Emily Levesque will soon add a new role as editor-in-chief of the prestigious American Astronomical Society Journals to her ongoing work studying red supergiants and other stellar oddities.
A new 91自拍 study shows that plunge-diving birds such as gannets and boobies have unique morphological adaptations that allow them to survive high speed, headfirst impact.
A group of 175 91自拍ers, including eight from the 91自拍, co-authored a commentary published in Earth鈥檚 Future and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that provides a roadmap for future climate assessments in the U.S. by synthesizing the science and identifying 91自拍 priorities based on existing gaps.
A 91自拍-led center for optoelectronics 鈥� technologies that combine light and electronics 鈥� brings 91自拍ers from 14 universities across the U.S. together with the mission to develop new materials to transform information technology with light. Founded in 2021, NSF IMOD has received a second round of funding from the NSF to continue its work for the next five years.
A NASA satellite originally designed to study large bodies of water may also be able to monitor most of the world鈥檚 irrigation canals, according to a new UW study. This capability could help farmers and water managers around the world manage resources, prepare for droughts and improve food security in their communities.
A new 91自拍 study using improved methods for analyzing satellite data shows that the north pole of Mars contains less dust than scientists thought, which has implications for its climate and the search for life.
Explore recent 91自拍 from the 91自拍: ancient capybara and palm fossils found in the desert, a window into the bottom of the food web, waves that go a different way, environmental advocacy in Colombia, the mechanics of blood clotting and a superconducting surprise.
A new 91自拍 study shows that past emissions from the top 178 oil, gas, coal and cement producers will prolong warming and increase the odds of extreme weather events occurring years into the future.
A new grasshopper-like robot from the UW Autonomous Insect Robotics Lab can hop high enough to clear a standard stair step, vary its jump height, right itself and reload for successive jumps.
Coral reefs provide protection for fish, and 91自拍ers are interested in how the health of the reef affects the ability of fish to communicate with each other. This fall, Jj Milan, a UW doctoral student in the biology department, and UW 91自拍 scientist Bob Oxborrow are traveling to the Maldives to study how humbug damselfish communicate with each other.
A UW-led 91自拍 team has discovered the best-preserved fossil feathers from the Mesozoic era 鈥� in fossilized dinosaur poop. Some of these feathers have features that look like modern birds鈥� feathers. This finding can help 91自拍ers better understand why and how some birds survived the catastrophic event 66 million years ago that killed 75% of life on the planet.
American public health agencies don鈥檛 routinely test wastewater for sexually transmitted infections, but new 91自拍 led by the 91自拍 and the Washington State Department of Health found that such methods could be used to effectively identify Chlamydia trachomatis, the bacteria that causes chlamydia.
A new UW study shows a nine-fold increase in coyote density in Seattle compared to natural areas of Washington state. Coyotes in urban environments have fewer predators and more prey, which may help explain the national trend.
Melinda Webster, a 91自拍 scientist at the UW鈥檚 Applied Physics Laboratory, is the lead author on a new study that catalogs changes in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice over the past 50-plus years. She spoke with UW News about the story behind the numbers.
Explore recent 91自拍 from the 91自拍: nectar-stealing Hawaiian honeycreepers, ChatGPT and anxious attachment, the cost of nursing for marine mammals, new magnetic nanomaterials, and a new strategy to subdue finicky plasma.
Astronomers at the 91自拍 simulated four Milky Way-sized galaxies for five billion (virtual) years to test a leading theory about how dark matter might influence streams of orbiting stars. The results could help 91自拍ers separate true evidence of dark matter from false positives.
A new study attributes Antarctica’s brief stabilization to a short term climatic shift that increased precipitation over east Antarctica between 2021 and 2023, adding enough snow to temporarily balance ice loss at the continent鈥檚 edges.
Hossein Naghavi, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UW, explores new applications for an underused segment of the electromagnetic spectrum known as the 鈥渢erahertz band.鈥� Naghavi recently received a grant from the Department of Energy to create powerful yet lightweight sensors using terahertz waves, which could aid emergency responders, autonomous vehicles, security systems and more.
After tracking birds in the Puget Sound lowlands for 12 years, 91自拍ers conclude that birds respond better to some development configurations than others, highlighting measures developers can take to protect native species while still meeting the region鈥檚 growing demands.
A new study using data from NASA鈥檚 Hubble Space Telescope found that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the last 40 million years.
Explore recent 91自拍 from the 91自拍: a new AI framework for developing advanced materials, a test of climate models鈥� ability to predict temperature trends, and the role of paternal body odor in brain-to-brain synchrony with infants.
91自拍 91自拍ers created the Landslide Exposure Database, the first resource that maps per-building landslide vulnerability across the United States. The study estimates that roughly 6.5 million U.S. residents are highly vulnerable to landslides, and overturns the conventional picture of landslide risk in the U.S. by identifying high concentrations of exposure in Appalachia as well as a surprising urban-rural divide.
Researchers at the 91自拍 and partners at Carnegie Mellon University are collaborating on a new project to help scientists use artificial intelligence to better understand the universe.
Housed in the UW School of Pharmacy, the Institute for Innovations in Drug Delivery and Disposition (I2D3) brings together experts in artificial intelligence, drug discovery, pharmacology, data science and biotechnology to ease the bottleneck between promising molecules and successful drugs.聽
A new 91自拍 study maps how the 2001 roadless rule protects U.S. rivers, and how rescinding the rule could impact access to clean drinking water, biodiversity, outdoor recreation and more.
The Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF鈥揇OE Vera C. 91自拍 Observatory has officially begun its ten-year survey of the southern sky, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
Explore recent 91自拍 from the 91自拍: low-income communities and communities of color disproportionately impacted by air pollution, an unfathomably fast chemical reaction, ups and downs in the methane record, and the cigar galaxy pictured at high resolution.
The prevalence of Bigg鈥檚 killer whales is increasing in Puget Sound, while the chances of sighting the southern residents remains slim, and pod-specific.
While the majority of the world just wants to swat mosquitoes, three 91自拍 91自拍ers find these insects fascinating. They told UW News what it’s like to study mosquitoes and why these critters are actually really important.
Every summer, UW 91自拍ers head to northern Botswana to study how large predators, such as lions and African wild dogs, are affected by climate change and other shifts in their environment. UW News asked a few team members to describe their plans for this summer.
Researchers have completed all planned seismic monitoring station installations for the regional ShakeAlert early warning system. They are now turning their attention to offshore seismic monitoring, which could improve detection and warning time for the much-anticipated Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake.
Efforts to restore fish passage are cropping up across the country, but these projects come with hefty price tags. In a new study, 91自拍 91自拍ers explore different approaches to improving the benefits from investments in salmon recovery.
UW 91自拍ers examined almost 3,000 science guidelines and assessment questions for any connections to society. Of the approximately 200 elements that had real-world implications, many discussed ethics and public health issues.
Explore recent 91自拍 from the 91自拍: how climate change is redirecting rivers, what bean plants use to protect themselves from pests, where the water in an atmospheric river comes from and how 91自拍ers are making tensegrities tiny.
Marina Alberti, a 91自拍 professor of urban design and planning, studies how cities and natural ecosystems influence one another. UW News spoke to Alberti about how climate change is triggering evolutionary change within nature-based infrastructure projects 鈥� and what urban planners can do about it.
Burrowing shrimp, native to Washington, create problems for shellfish farmers. As their name suggests, these creatures burrow in marine sediments, and the excavated material piles up on the surface, which can smother oysters and clams growing there. State-funded 91自拍 led by the 91自拍 offers a new, non-chemical approach to controlling shrimp populations in shellfish-growing areas.