Humpback whale population on the rise after near miss with extinction
A population of humpback whales in the South Atlantic has rebounded from the brink of extinction.
Ecology
Oct 22, 2019
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The University of Washington (UW) was founded in 1861 in the Seattle, Washington metro region. Despite its rocky beginnings, UW has emerged as a first rate science, medical center, climate and environmental center, technology center and superior research center in the Pacific Northwest. UW is rated highly world-wide and operates on a $3 billion dollar plus annual budget. UW confers undergraduate, graduate degrees including doctoral degrees, medical degrees and law degrees.
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Old friends and new enemies: How evolutionary history can predict insect invader impacts
About 450 nonnative, plant-eating insect species live in North American forests. Most of these critters are harmless, but a handful wreak havoc on their new environment, attacking trees and each year causing more than $70 ...
Evolution
Oct 17, 2019
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Scientists discover skin keeps time independent of the brain
Squids, octopuses, cuttlefish, amphibians, and chameleon lizards are among the animals that can change the color of their skin in a blink of an eye. They have photoreceptors in their skin that operate independently of their ...
Evolution
Oct 16, 2019
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Piranha fish swap old teeth for new simultaneously
Piranha fish have a powerful bite. Their teeth help them shred through the flesh of their prey or even scrape plants off rocks to supplement their diet.
Evolution
Oct 15, 2019
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New paper explores race, representation in campaign finance
In politics as in life, money talks. And in American politics, the question of "Who donates?" is closely linked to the crucial question of "Who governs?"
Political science
Oct 09, 2019
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New metasurface design can control optical fields in three dimensions
A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a 3-D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct. 4 in the journal Science ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 04, 2019
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Pay, flexibility, advancement: They all matter for workers' health and safety, study shows
The terms and conditions of your employment—including your pay, hours, schedule flexibility and job security—influence your overall health as well as your risk of being injured on the job, according to new research from ...
Social Sciences
Sep 26, 2019
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Introducing VPLanet: A virtual planet simulator for modeling distant worlds across time
University of Washington astrobiologist Rory Barnes has created software that simulates multiple aspects of planetary evolution across billions of years, with an eye toward finding and studying potentially habitable worlds.
Astronomy
Sep 20, 2019
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Plasma flow near sun's surface explains sunspots, other solar phenomena
For 400 years people have tracked sunspots, the dark patches that appear for weeks at a time on the sun's surface. They have observed but been unable to explain why the number of spots peaks every 11 years.
Plasma Physics
Sep 19, 2019
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KATRIN cuts the mass estimate for the elusive neutrino in half
An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe.
General Physics
Sep 16, 2019
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