Many people have had the experience of being poked in the back by a plastic tag while trying on clothes in a store. That is just one example of radio frequency identification technology, which has become a mainstay not just ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 3, 2020
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Drug delivery is a recurring conundrum in cancer treatment. Scientists have developed many anti-cancer therapeutics. But those drugs often harm healthy tissues, and drugs can even break down in the bloodstream before reaching ...
Polymers
Nov 3, 2020
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Wildfires burning in the West affect not only the areas burned, but the wider regions covered by smoke. Recent years have seen hazy skies and hazardous air quality become regular features of the late summer weather.
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2020
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A new study led by paleontologists at the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture indicates that the earliest evidence of mammal social behavior goes back to the Age of Dinosaurs.
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2020
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The March 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington, about 55 miles northeast of Seattle, became the deadliest landslide event in United States history. Forty-three people died and 49 homes and structures were destroyed.
Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2020
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The Columbia River is home to one of the West Coast's most important Chinook salmon runs. Through late spring and early summer, mature fish return from the sea and begin their arduous journey upriver to spawn. In recent years, ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2020
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In this year of extreme weather events—from devastating West Coast wildfires to tropical Atlantic storms that have exhausted the alphabet—scientists and members of the public are asking when these extreme events can be ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2020
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Scientists can have ambitious goals: Curing disease, exploring distant worlds, clean-energy revolutions. In physics and materials research, some of these ambitious goals are to make ordinary-sounding objects with extraordinary ...
Nanophysics
Oct 6, 2020
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When exploring data on Washington workers during the pandemic—demographics, working conditions, wages and benefits, and risks of exposure to disease—the authors of a new report found that women hold two-thirds of the ...
Economics & Business
Oct 5, 2020
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A cooler full of fish might not be the only thing anglers bring back from a trip to the lake. Unknowingly, they may also be transporting small aquatic "hitchhikers" that attach themselves to boats, motors ― and even fishing ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2020
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