Natural Sciences Division

Recent work done at UW's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences found babies' brains were activated in specific areas while watching adults.

The University of Washington's Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics is about to go hunting. Their quarry: A theorized-but-never-seen elementary particle called an axion.

Researchers from the University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and Temple University have found the first evidence revealing a key aspect of the brain processing that occurs in babies to allow learning by observation.

Alcohol may not be the social lubricant everyone thinks it is, according to University of Washington health psychologist Jason Kilmer.

In a letter to the editor, Eliot Brenowitz, professor of biology, comments on the intelligence of birds.

Undersea life is often plagued by disease outbreaks, according to University of Washington marine ecologist Robert Paine, even though their causes are seldom identified.

There are many ways genetic engineering can produce food that is unsafe to eat. But the human diet has always been fraught with the same kind of risks, said Toby Bradshaw, a plant geneticist and chairman of the Biology Department at the University of Washington.

UW's Conservation Canines are at it again. Learn more about their work with orcas.

To hear UW biology professor Michael Dickinson tell it, there is nothing in the world quite as wonderful as a fruit fly.

Zoos all around the world love penguins. But as carefree as they might look, zoo penguins are stalked by an unrelenting killer: malaria. Penguin expert Dee Boersma weighs in.

UW psychology professor David P. Barash says there's evidence that cooperation may have played just as much of a role in human evolution as war did.

Biology professor Toby Bradshaw seeks to calm fears about genetically modified food.

A UW biology grad student is working to identify rays killed for medicinal purposes.

Professors of mathematics, chemistry, and sociology were named to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

The Henry Art Gallery and Jacob Lawrence Gallery have new exhibits and the Burke Museum is offering a unique look at New Zealand.