University of Washington, Author Profile

What Motivates People to Join—and Stick with—Citizen Science Projects?

July 25, 2019

A recent UW-led paper explores the interests and identities of participants who join and remain active in citizen scienc...

How You and Your Friends Can Play a Video Game Together Using Only Your Minds

July 2, 2019

A University of Washington team created a method that allows three people to work together to solve a problem using only thei...

Arsenic-Breathing Life Discovered in the Tropical Pacific Ocean

May 2, 2019

Researchers analyzed seawater samples from a region below the surface where oxygen is almost absent, forcing life to seek oth...

Bats Evolved Diverse Skull Shapes Due to Echolocation, Diet

May 2, 2019

With so much morphological variety, bats represent an opportunity to learn what types of evolutionary forces shape the shapes...

Water Disinfection Can Miss Drug-Resistant Genes

April 22, 2019

Even after treatment, non-resistant bacteria could still become resistant by picking up intact genes left over from damaged a...

Which Face Is Real?

March 7, 2019

A new website helps people navigate the increasing amount of misinformation and deception they see online

Researchers Develop a New Houseplant That Can Clean Your Home's Air

December 19, 2018

Researchers have genetically modified a common houseplant to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it

First Sensor Package That Can Ride Aboard Bees

December 14, 2018

A team of researchers has created a sensing system that is small enough to ride aboard a bumblebee

The 'Swiss Army Knife of Prehistoric Tools' Found in Asia

November 20, 2018

A study by an international team of researchers determined that carved stone tools, also known as Levallois cores, were used ...

Study Reconstructs Neandertal Ribcage, Offers New Clues to Ancient Human Anatomy

October 31, 2018

The reconstruction could potentially shed new light on how this ancient human moved and breathed

Thousands of Breast Cancer Gene Variants Engineered and Analyzed

September 17, 2018

Findings will be immediately useful to many patients with previously inconclusive genetic test results

Diving Robots Find Antarctic Winter Seas Exhale Surprising Amounts of Carbon Dioxide

August 15, 2018

More than 100 oceanic floats are now diving and drifting in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica during the peak of winter...

The First Wireless Flying Robotic Insect Takes Off

May 16, 2018

RoboFly is slightly heavier than a toothpick and is powered by a laser beam

Molecule May Help Tame Virulent Bacteria and Prevent Infection

April 27, 2018

Findings discuss how Staphylococcus can colonize our noses but not cause infection

Democratizing Science: Researchers Make Neuroscience Experiments Easier to Share, Reproduce

March 16, 2018

One factor contributing to the “replication crisis” in science is undoubtedly the difficulty of sharing the ...