For 50 years, what's called "the phosphate problem" has plagued studies on the origin of life

How lessons the Heising-Simons Foundation learned could inform changes in academia, education, and philanthropy to boost diversity, equity and inclusion in all STEM fields

Researchers at the University of Washington have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change projections, can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains

University of Washington researchers have found that air pollution from electricity generation emissions in 2014 led to about 16,000 premature deaths in the continental US

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a method that could make reproducible manufacturing at the nanoscale possible

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

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

A new study shows the western South Atlantic humpback population has grown to 25,000, which researchers believe is close to pre-whaling numbers