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November 8, 2017
Researchers from the University of Washington and Columbia University are getting ready for an unprecedented months-long campaign to study Antarctica’s ice shelves from the ocean below.Featured on... Read more
November 8, 2017
Jason Detwiler is an assistant professor of physics at the University of Washington, and he’s on the hunt for a natural phenomenon that is insanely rare. It's a specific reaction called neutrinoless double-beta decay -- a term so egg-headed that...
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October 20, 2017
About 130 million years ago in the distant galaxy, two neutron stars spiraled toward each other and merged. This violent event initiated ripples in the fabric of spacetime — gravitational waves — which propagated through space at the speed of light...
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September 29, 2017
Professor of Chemistry, Daniel Gamelin, is director of the new Molecular Engineering Materials Center for research, education and training in materials science.Featured on UW Today
August 28, 2017
University of Washington physicist Kai-Mei Fu discusses quantum internet.Featured on Business Insider
August 11, 2017
Evolutionary psychology is just the most obvious example of science’s flaws.Featured on Seattle Times
July 13, 2017
Forty percent of women of color said that they felt unsafe in their current job as a result of harassment about their gender.Featured on The Washington Post
June 15, 2017
According to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, axions could theoretically condense into something like a Bose-Einstein condensate.Featured on Quanta Magazine