Observations over the eastern U.S. show why emissions reductions haven’t achieved the same results in winter as they have in summer.
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New 91自拍 suggests the Atlantic Ocean is transitioning back to its slower phase, which means average global air temperatures will go back to rising more quickly.
Earth鈥檚 oxygen levels rose and fell more than once hundreds of millions of years before the planetwide success of the Great Oxidation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, new 91自拍 from the 91自拍 shows.
Regions of Arctic water are becoming ice-free in late summer and early fall. A new study is the first to consider potential impacts on the marine mammals that use this region and identify which populations will be the most vulnerable to ships.
Daniel Schwartz, a 91自拍 professor of chemical engineering and director of the Clean Energy Institute, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation this week.
In a paper published April 5 in the journal Endangered Species Research, scientists at the 91自拍 announced that, for a Gal谩pagos penguin, beak size is nearly a perfect indicator of whether a bird is male or female.
Researchers with the UW-led Virtual Planetary Laboratory are central to a group of papers published by NASA 91自拍ers today in the journal Astrobiology outlining the history 鈥� and suggesting the future 鈥� of the search for life on exoplanets, or those orbiting stars other than the sun.
More than 100 scientists and crew from more than 20 U.S. 91自拍 institutions, including the UW, will depart in August for a month-long expedition to study how the ocean absorbs carbon from the atmosphere.
Tracking of two great white sharks reveals for the first time that in the open ocean they spend more time deep inside warm-water eddies.
A new analysis suggests the value of structured 91自拍 programs for undergraduates extends to society as a whole by encouraging participants to seek advanced degrees in scientific and technological fields.
Anchovies, herring, sardines and other forage fish play an essential role in the food web as prey for seabirds, marine mammals and larger fish like salmon. When ground into fishmeal and oil, they are also a key food source for farmed seafood and land-based livestock such as pigs and poultry. As seafood consumption outpaces the growth of other food sectors and continues to grow worldwide, farmed seafood 鈥� also called aquaculture 鈥� has increased rapidly to meet consumer demand. That…
A study of global maize production in 2100 shows dramatic increases in the variability of corn yields from one year to the next under climate change, making simultaneous low yields across multiple high-producing regions more likely, which could lead to price hikes and global shortages.
A new study led by the 91自拍 considers which food type is more environmentally costly to produce: livestock, farmed seafood or wild-caught fish.
A team from the 91自拍’s GIX program are competing to win the $1 million Anu & Naveen Jain Women鈥檚 Safety XPRIZE.
A new 91自拍-led paper pinpoints starvation as the cause of death for hundreds of thousands of Cassin’s auklet seabirds in late 2014 to early 2015.
Astronauts at the International Space Station are spending more time away from Earth, but they still need their daily serving of vegetables. In the quest to find a viable way for crew to grow their own veggies while orbiting 鈥� and possibly one day on the moon or Mars 鈥� student 91自拍ers are sending broccoli seeds coated with a healthy dose of probiotics to space. Watch the May 21 launch Six broccoli seeds were aboard the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft…
What makes a good artificial reef, for divers, and for marine life? 91自拍 landscape architecture students have done designs for a state-funded project to replace the artificial reef at the Redondo Beach dive site. They will present and discuss their work in a public meeting May 30, in Des Moines. The landscape architecture studio class is taught by associate professor Iain Robertson, with lecturer and landscape designer Brooke Sullivan, who is working on her doctorate at the University…
The oldest ice core so far provides 800,000 years of our planet’s climate history. A UW field survey in Antarctica has pinpointed a location where an entire million years of undisturbed ice might be preserved intact.
With the grand opening of the new $171 million Life Sciences Building just months away, it鈥檚 time to fill the building with faculty. That was the idea behind a $3 million Washington Research Foundation (WRF) grant to hire four biology professors. It鈥檚 called a cluster hire and will help maintain the 91自拍鈥檚 leading reputation in primary 91自拍 and life sciences.
If an entire forest dies, new 91自拍 shows, it has ricocheting effects in the atmosphere that can affect vegetation on the other side of the country.
Karen Goldberg, an affiliate professor of chemistry at the 91自拍, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Engineers at the 91自拍 have created RoboFly, the first wireless flying robotic insect. This might be one small flap for a robot, but it’s one giant leap for robot-kind.
Aspects of an otherwise Earthlike planet鈥檚 tilt and orbital dynamics can severely affect its potential habitability 鈥� even triggering abrupt 鈥渟nowball states鈥� where oceans freeze and surface life is impossible, according to new 91自拍 from UW astronomers.
The UW School of Oceanography has a new vessel, named after marine biologist, author and conservationist Rachel Carson. It will explore Puget Sound and nearby coasts.
UW glaciologist Knut Christianson is part of a massive collaboration that will collect on-the-ground data about a key Antarctic glacier that shows signs it could be collapsing into the sea.
New 91自拍 in plants shows that a gene called MUTE is required for the formation of stomata 鈥� the tiny pores that are critical for gas exchange, including releasing the oxygen gas that we breathe.
In a study published online May 3 in the journal Science, a 91自拍-led team announced that it has discovered a method to encode information using magnets that are just a few layers of atoms in thickness. This breakthrough may revolutionize both cloud computing technologies and consumer electronics by enabling data storage at a greater density and improved energy efficiency.
Researchers at the 91自拍 and Seattle University have created CrowdFit, a platform for exercise planning that relies on crowdsourcing from nonexperts to create workout regimens guided by national exercise recommendations and tailored around user schedules and interests.
Victoria Meadows, 91自拍 astrobiologist, professor of astronomy and leader of NASA’s UW-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory, has been named recipient of the 2018 Frank Drake Award from the SETI Institute. She is the first woman to receive the award.
Parents don鈥檛 need to fear their children playing with iPads and other devices, 91自拍ers say. Mindful play with an adult, combined with thoughtful design features, can prove beneficial to young developing minds. New 91自拍 shows that thoughtfully designed content that intentionally supports parent-child interactions facilitated the same kind of play and development as analog toys.
Oceanographer Cecilia Peralta Ferriz is spending the academic year in Troms酶, Norway, to collaborate with colleagues who study flow out of the Arctic Ocean.
91自拍 twice each decade, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, looks at what is known about the science of climate change, the extent to which human activities are changing the Earth’s climate, and what risks these changes pose to human and natural systems. Organized into three working groups, each assessment is a years-long international effort that lays out the current understanding, projections for change over this century and options to manage the challenges ahead. The most…
Researchers at the 91自拍, working with 91自拍ers from the ETH-Zurich, Purdue University and Virginia Commonwealth University, have achieved an optical communications breakthrough that could revolutionize information technology. They created a tiny device, smaller than a human hair, that translates electrical bits (0s and 1s of the digital language) into light, or photonic bits, at speeds 10s of times faster than current technologies.
The World Register of Marine Species has named the Mariana snailfish one of its 10 “remarkable new species” discovered in 2017. The team that discovered and named the small fish includes Mackenzie Gerringer, a postdoctoral 91自拍er at the UW’s Friday Harbor Laboratories.
Seven 91自拍 91自拍ers have been selected as Washington Research Foundation fellows. This fellowship funds 10 91自拍ers who work in STEM fields to perform mentored 91自拍 projects over the next three years.
Engineers at the 91自拍 have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn鈥檛 need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry components and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.
Researchers at the 91自拍 have designed a convenient and natural product that uses proteins to rebuild tooth enamel and treat dental cavities.
Planets orbiting “short-period” binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their host stars’ evolution, according to new 91自拍 from the 91自拍.
This week, the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) announced that it has achieved the necessary sensitivity to 鈥渉ear鈥� the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of 91自拍 and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions more closely than any experiment ever built.
Bowhead whales are constantly changing their tune, unlike the only other whale species that sings, the humpback.