October 17, 2008
An old adage says there are two sides to every story; yesterday evening, a public forum on United States energy policy proved a caveat to that truth.

May 15, 2008
Challenging common assumptions, research by UW scientists estimate future impacts due to climate change may be greatest on organisms in the tropics.

April 23, 2008
Western Washington was hit with record low temperatures and unseasonable lowland snowfall this past weekend.

April 17, 2008
Science debate sparks, well, debate among scholars

March 6, 2008
And you thought January was cold.

February 15, 2008
With the weather looking up, a tour amid the gardens and groves of the Washington Park Arboretum could be just the chance students have been waiting for to snap them out of the doldrums of midterms and rainy weather.

December 6, 2007
As tempestuous as this week's weather has been, it's not entirely without precedent.

November 29, 2007
Covering more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface, the oceans are difficult to observe in their entirety.

November 27, 2007
A new technique for deriving human stem cells may change the course of research in the field of regenerative medicine. The announcement of the technique's success has researchers at the UW anxious to reproduce and test the methods.

November 16, 2007
Humans are incredibly complex machines. Our biology dictates an innumerable quantity of events every second, from the creation of red blood cells in our bone marrow to the rhythmic beating of our hearts. At the lowest level, these processes are driven by DNA. Functioning as the equivalent of computer programs, DNA passes instructions to components within the cells that comprise our bodies.

November 8, 2007
The North Physics Laboratory (NPL) and Cyclotron Shop sit inconspicuously on the Northeast end of campus, below both Haggett and McCarty Halls.

November 8, 2007
Despite notions to the contrary, scientists and laypeople have something in common: dealing with uncertainty.

November 5, 2007
Dust off those photo albums, because new technology is breathing life into old vacation pictures.

November 1, 2007
What does it mean to be successful in graduate school? Earn a degree? Acquire a particular skill set?

October 31, 2007
Speaking before a capacity crowd in Kane Hall is a tall order. Last night, UW professor of oceanography John Delaney addressed such an audience at the Fall 2007 Provost Distinguished Lecture.

October 30, 2007
Fifty years after the launch of Sputnik initiated a revolution in space exploration, a group of UW oceanographers is poised to revolutionize our observation of the Earth's oceans.

October 25, 2007
The Earth's changeable climate has captured a lot of attention lately. From the fires raging in Southern California to drought in the southeastern United States, we seem to be reminded constantly of our inclusion in the natural world.

October 24, 2007
Anthropological research is giving new meaning to the phrase "it runs in the family."

October 18, 2007
The future is looking cleaner and greener thanks to the efforts of a group of UW scientists.

October 10, 2007
After a summer of record melting, UW scientists say that Arctic sea ice is in short supply. Though the ice, habitat for polar bears, has been in retreat for more than a decade, researchers say no one predicted this year's dramatic changes.

October 8, 2007
Aspiring scientists at the UW have a lot on their minds: courses, research, theses. Communicating with the non-scientific community is often an afterthought; they prefer to let the facts speak for themselves.

October 4, 2007
From tales of mythical beasties and the kraken comes the science behind a new exhibit at the Burke Museum.

October 3, 2007

September 27, 2007
Compared to the breakneck pace of daily life for an average UW student, climate change occurring over decades or longer is a creeping, almost imperceptible phenomenon.

August 8, 2007
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels proposed raising the city's garbage collection rates by 6.2 percent in the next year. Announced on July 27, the move comes in support of a series of other changes Nickels and the City Council recently initiated to improve Seattle's waste management.