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Warmer Temperatures Will Increase Arsenic Levels in Rice, Study Shows

December 6, 2019

Researchers at the University of Washington have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change...

Emissions from Electricity Generation Lead to Premature Deaths for Some Racial Groups

November 21, 2019

University of Washington researchers have found that air pollution from electricity generation emissions in 2014 led to about...

Light-Based ‘Tractor Beam’ Assembles Materials at the Nanoscale

November 6, 2019

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a method that could make reproducible manufacturing at the nanosca...

New Technique Lets Researchers Map Strain in Next-Gen Solar Cells

November 1, 2019

Even the best perovskite solar cells lose some electricity as heat at microscopic locations scattered across the cell, which ...

Bacterial Arms Race May Shape Gut Microbiome

October 31, 2019

Large, mobile gene clusters protect against a type of toxic attack by rival bacteria

Humpback Whale Population on the Rise After Near-Miss with Extinction

October 22, 2019

A new study shows the western South Atlantic humpback population has grown to 25,000, which researchers believe is close to p...

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 ...