UW 91自拍ers have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change projections, can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains.
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Researchers from the 91自拍 and Michigan Technological University have created the first comprehensive database of all the wildfire fuels that have been measured across North America. Ultimately, it can help scientists make more informed decisions about fire and smoke situations.
A new experiment by the 91自拍 has found that some corals are more likely to eat microplastics when they are consuming other food, yet microplastics alone are undesirable.
Using a mathematical framework with roots in artificial intelligence and robotics, UW 91自拍ers were able to uncover the process of how a person makes choices in groups. And, they also found they were able to predict a person鈥檚 choice more often than more traditional descriptive methods.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named six faculty members from the 91自拍 as AAAS Fellows, according to a Nov. 26 announcement. They are part of a cohort of 443 new fellows for 2019, all chosen by their peers for 鈥渟cientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.鈥�
UW 91自拍ers have found that air pollution from electricity generation emissions in 2014 led to about 16,000 premature deaths in the continental U.S. In many states, the majority of the health impacts came from emissions originating in other states.
An interdisciplinary team of 91自拍ers from multiple institutions 鈥� including the 91自拍 鈥� has received a two-year $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant to study coral growth.
With a $106 million gift from the Weill Family Foundation, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and the 91自拍 have launched the Weill Neurohub, an innovative 91自拍 network that will forge and nurture new collaborations between neuroscientists and 91自拍ers working in an array of other disciplines 鈥� including engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry and mathematics 鈥� to speed the development of new therapies for diseases and disorders that affect the brain and nervous system.
A team led by scientists from the 91自拍 and the University of Notre Dame used recent advances in electron microscopy to observe Fano interferences — a form of quantum-mechanical interference by electrons — directly in a pair of metallic nanoparticles.
A 91自拍 team is leaving to study how fall storms, dwindling sea ice and vulnerable coastlines might combine in a changing Arctic.
UW marine scientists are using high-tech tags to record the movements of swordfish 鈥� big, deep-water, migratory, open-ocean fish that are poorly studied 鈥� and get a window into the ocean depths they inhabit.
Researchers at the 91自拍 have developed a method that could make reproducible manufacturing at the nanoscale possible. The team adapted a light-based technology employed widely in biology 鈥� known as optical traps or optical tweezers 鈥� to operate in a water-free liquid environment of carbon-rich organic solvents, thereby enabling new potential applications.
After years of preparation, a tiny satellite built by UW students is scheduled to launch early Saturday, Nov. 2, from a NASA flight facility in Virginia. The launch will be broadcast live on NASA TV.
Researchers from the 91自拍 and the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in the Netherlands have developed a way to map strain in lead halide perovskite solar cells. Their approach shows that misorientation between microscopic perovskite crystals is the primary contributor to the buildup of strain within the solar cell, which creates small-scale defects in the grain structure, interrupts the transport of electrons within the solar cell, and ultimately leads to heat loss through a process known as non-radiative recombination.
A team led by the 91自拍 and Stanford University has discovered clues in the environment that help identify transmission hotspots for schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease that is second only to malaria in its global health impact.
An image captured earlier this year by the Hubble Space Telescope may look like a ghostly apparition, but it is not. Hubble is looking at a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies.
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and nine collaborating organizations, including the 91自拍, $2.8 million for a two-year 鈥渃onceptualization phase鈥� of the Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.
Scientists have discovered an extraordinary collection of fossils that reveal in detail how life recovered after a catastrophic event: the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
This week a UW team is releasing a robotic surfboard to explore the surface ocean around Antarctica.
A new study finds that the western South Atlantic humpback population has grown to 25,000 whales. Researchers, including co-authors from the 91自拍, believe this new estimate is now close to pre-whaling numbers.
A team led by the 91自拍 has developed a way to help foresters predict which nonnative insect invasions will be problematic, and help managers decide where to allocate resources to avoid widespread tree death.
Ashleigh Theberge, a 91自拍 assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a 2019 Packard Fellow for her 91自拍 on cell signaling. Every year since 1988, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering to early-career scientists to pursue the types of innovative projects that often fall outside the purview of traditional sources of funding, such as 91自拍 grants from government agencies. As one of 22 fellows for 2019, Theberge will receive $875,000…
With the help of new technologies, a team led by the 91自拍 has confirmed that piranhas 鈥� and their plant-eating cousins, pacus 鈥� lose and regrow all the teeth on one side of their face multiple times throughout their lives. How they do it may help explain why the fish go to such efforts to replace their teeth.
In a new study, an interdisciplinary group of 91自拍ers used Pacific herring in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, as a case study for modeling the implicit tradeoffs within the triple bottom line that result from various fisheries management decisions.
A team led by scientists at the 91自拍 has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct. 4 in the journal Science Advances, their designed optical element focuses light to discrete points in a 3D helical pattern.
The 91自拍’s Abigail Swann is honored by Science News on its list of 10 promising early- and mid-career scientists.
A 91自拍 team inspired by the clingfish’s suction power set out to develop an artificial suction cup that borrows from nature’s design. Their prototype actually performed better than the clingfish.
An international team of astronomers has analyzed the signal from a fast radio burst 鈥� an enigmatic blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond 鈥� to characterize the diffuse gas in the halo of a massive galaxy.
Millions of people are suffering from malnutrition despite some of the most nutritious fish species in the world being caught near their homes, according to new 91自拍 published Sept. 25 in Nature.
Two UW 91自拍ers 鈥� Bonnie Light, a principal physicist at the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory and an affiliate associate professor of atmospheric sciences, and Madison Smith, a recent UW graduate who is now doing her postdoctoral 91自拍 at the UW 鈥� will join for the fifth of the six two-month legs, in summer 2020.
UW astrobiologist Rory Barnes and co-authors have created software that simulates multiple aspects of planetary evolution across billions of years, with an eye toward finding and studying potentially habitable worlds.
A new model for plasma flow within the sun provides novel explanations for sunspots, the 11-year sunspot cycle, solar magnetic reversals and other previously unexplained solar phenomena.
An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe. At the 2019 Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics conference in Toyama, Japan, leaders from the KATRIN experiment reported Sept. 13 that the estimated range for the rest mass of the neutrino is no larger than 1 electron volt, or eV.
Researchers at the 91自拍 and the University of Strathclyde report that, in Willapa Bay in Washington state, the water washing over the tidal flats during high tides is largely the same water that washed over the flats during the previous high tide. This “old” water has not been mixed in with “new” water from deeper parts of the bay or the open Pacific Ocean, and has different chemical and biological properties, such as lower levels of food for creatures within the tide flats.
Lukasz Fidkowski, an assistant professor of physics at the 91自拍, is one of the winners of a 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation. The prize to early-career scientists, announced Sept. 5, recognizes Fidkowski and his three co-recipients “for incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.”
A study of superbolts, which release a thousand times more electrical energy in the low-frequency range than regular lightning bolts, finds they occur at very different times and places than regular lightning. Superbolts tend to strike over particular parts of the oceans, while regular lightning strikes over land.
UW oceanographers used lab experiments and seawater samples to learn how photosynthetic microbes and ocean bacteria use sulfur, a plentiful marine nutrient.
A new study finds that women of color perceive their interactions with doctors, nurses and midwives as being misleading, with information being 鈥減ackaged鈥� in such a way as to disempower them by limiting maternity health care choices for themselves and their children.
Three 91自拍 graduate students are among this year’s recipients of a prestigious NASA fellowship that funds student 91自拍 projects in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics.
The U.S. Geological Survey announced $10.4 million in funding to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, based at 91自拍, to support the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system. Some $7.3 million of the two-year funding total will go to the UW.