Researchers say the amount of carbon dioxide coming off streams, rivers and flooded areas of the world's tropical forests is triple that of some currently accepted estimates, meaning such forests aren't the carbon sponges some scientists believe.
Children's gender-based choices when it comes to picking a musical instrument to play are so embedded that researchers have now shown that children as young as 5 exhibit stereotypical preferences.
Individuals with a genetic variant were twice as likely to avoid heart attacks and strokes if they took a diuretic.
The number of commercial air travelers who now find flying to be at least somewhat stressful has risen dramatically to 81 percent of passengers, according to the first survey measuring the attitudes of people before and after Sept. 11.
New research tools promise tantalizing glimpses of characteristics in the universe that until now have gone unseen. In fact, a University of Washington cosmologist says "we might, in a technical sense, soon observe the beginning of time."
Building on a trend to bring Wall Street into the classroom, the Nasdaq Stock Market Educational Foundation has given its first-ever grant to help create a virtual trading room at the University of Washington Business School.
The financial value of a law-abiding reputation -- not tighter government regulations -- is the best way to prevent future scandals like those enveloping energy giant Enron and its auditor Arthur Andersen, a University of Washington researcher says.
When they're not with their parents, children spend more time in the care of neighbors, friends and other relatives than at formal child care centers or licensed home providers, according to a major University of Washington study.
The promise of upward mobility -- a centerpiece of the American dream, which fosters the notion that anyone can get ahead with hard work, may have disappeared with the 20th century. A new study shows that 90 percent of young white male workers can expect to have lower lifetime wage growth than the previous generation.
With waves -- some 300 to 1,000 feet tall -- traveling beneath the surface, internal tides at the Hawaiian Ridge and other such spots around the world may help scientists discover what causes 90 percent of the mixing in the world's ocean.
The atmosphere often is highly layered, particularly when a temperature inversion blocks intruding air from above and below. A University of Washington scientist says that can mean a lower layer of polluted air, followed by 500 to 1,000 feet of pristine air -- a clean-air slot -- topped by another layer of pollution.
Oxygen in the upper waters of the North Pacific, an area that accounts for 40 percent of the world's oceans, decreased as much as 15 percent in a little under two decades between the early 1980s and late 1990s, reports a University of Washington oceanographer.
School dropout rates among immigrant teenagers are most severe among Mexican-Americans, particularly those who migrated to the United States after starting school in Mexico. Nearly 28 percent of Mexican immigrants ages 15-17 were not enrolled in high school, analysis of census data shows.
Scientists have made major strides to understand neutrinos in the last three years. Now a University of Washington team has determined with the greatest precision yet just how many energetic neutrinos are generated in the sun's nuclear furnace.
In a pair of pioneering studies, a French and American team of social-cognitive neuroscientists have identified a network of brain regions that are involved in human imitation and specific brain areas that enable a person to distinguish the self from others.
UW researcher plans to spend much of the next five years using the Apache Point telescope in New Mexico as a tape measure, employing a laser beam and reflectors left by several lunar missions to provide the most exacting measure of the Earth's distance from the moon.
Neuroscientists examining the brain activity of people who learned to speak American Sign Language at different times in their lives have found the first evidence that that is a critical period for acquiring non-verbal language, just as there is for spoken languages.
During the last 40 years, chemists have developed an understanding of how an electron transfers from one group to another to create new compounds. Now a team of University of Washington chemists has found that the same ideas apply to transferring a hydrogen atom.
A little larceny is every day behavior for a species of crow that is constantly looking for opportunities to steal food from other members of its flock.
A haze of pollution, tracked by satellite across the Pacific Ocean, settled over a large swath of North America last spring. Now it appears that, for the first time, researchers on both sides of the Pacific took detailed measurements of the same plume of pollution.
Preschool-age children with autism exhibit no difference in brain acitivity when they are shown photographs of faces displaying different emotions, and their brains are larger than normal, according to new research at the University of Washington's Autism Center.
Researchers have developed a new technique for observing large proteins that gives scientists the most detail picture yet of the biological workhorses and promises to shed light on issues ranging from blood-clotting processes to how cancer spreads.
Treatment with a combination of statin and niacin can slash the risk of a fatal or non-fatal heart attack or hospitalization for chest pain by 70 percent among patients who are likely to suffer heart attacks and/or death from coronary heart disease.
People can take a five-minute, anonymous Web test that measures their level of unconscious prejudice against Arab Muslims. The test, developed by University of Washington and Yale psychologists, can be accessed on the tolerance.org Web site.
Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered a promising potential cancer treatment among the ancient arts of Chinese folk medicine.
Climate change, not early humans, is the likely culprit which caused the extinction of a large array of North America mammals including mammoths, mastadons, saber-toothed cats and giant sloths, says a University of Washington archaeologist.
University of Washington researchers have won more than $5M in federal grants to create software of unprecedented power and flexibility to help Puget Sound and other metropolitan areas tackle such problems as gridlock and pollution.
Although more diagnostic tools are available now than ever, there has been no improvement in the rate of misdiagnosis of appendicitis during the last decade, according to University of Washington researchers.
The National Human Genome Research Institute has awarded two grants of $15M each for the next phase of research into understanding how the human genome functions. One project will seek effective and economical ways to determine individual differences in the genome from one person to another. The other project will examine the operation of cells through new modular microscale devices.
While the U.S. Census Bureau reported earlier this year that the number of African American- and Hispanic-owned businesses are on the rise, such businesses still do not receive equal access to the venture capital crucial to staying competitive, according to a University of Washington researcher.
Using such novel tools as a small catamaran and a fish finder that can show what orca whales are feeding on up to a quarter of a mile beneath the ocean surface, University of Washington researchers have launched a multiyear effort to determine the cause of the marine mammals' plummeting population.
Society may honor homemakers but it's the wage-earner who is more likely to control household spending. Economists found evidence that wives gain more influence after their husbands retire.
Researchers have sequenced the genome of Agrobacterium and made it freely available on the Internet. Agrobacterium has the unique property of inserting small pieces of genetic material into a plant, animal or fungal cell, and is a basic tool for genetic engineering.
A brief non-confrontational intervention program administered to high-risk college-age drinkers when they entered college had long-lasting effects that persisted over four years in reducing the number of alcohol-related problems.
A new cross-campus center at the University of Washington Business School will provide research faculty and students with the opportunity to study the real-world problems involved in turning leading-edge technology into viable companies.
One of the scientists leading the effort to understand exactly how infants go about learning language told a White House Summit on Early Childhood Cognitive Development that the fundamental steps in language acquisition later play a critical role in the ability to read.
New kinds of instruments and experiments -- made possible with a just announced multi-million dollar award from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles -- could give scientists ways to study the microbial life that flourishes where the seafloor twists and buckles.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's controversial "Reg FD," or fair-disclosure regulation, may be closing the gap in fair trading between large and small investors, a University of Washington researcher reports.
The remarkable hydrothermal vents discovered last December in the mid-Atlantic, including an 18-story vent taller than any seen before, are formed in a very different way than previously studied vents: Fluids are apparently driven by heat generated when seawater reacts with mantle rocks, not by volcanic heat.
The Arctic Oscillation has been linked to wide-ranging climate effects in the Northern Hemisphere, but new evidence by researchers at Colorado State University and the University of Washington shows that in recent decades it has been the key in preventing freezing temperatures from extending as far south as they had previously.
Popular wisdom reminds people not to bite the hand that feeds them. However, a University of Washington researcher has found a species of social wasp that bites its fellow workers, prompting them to leave the nest and forage for the colony.
Successful entrepreneurs such as the founder of the biotech company Amgen, and the co-founder of the global power plant developer AES Corp., prefer a far different decision-making process when launching a company than typically taught in business schools, a University of Washington Business School researcher has found.
New evidence suggests that the current stew of airborne chemicals and particles might be giving clouds stronger cooling properties than previously thought, a University of Washington atmospheric chemist says.
Well-documented gender differences in people's ability to navigate in the real world are vastly exaggerated in computer-simulated virtual environment, according to University of Washington researchers.
In a new study showing false memories can be created, about one-third of people exposed to a fake print advertisement about Disneyland later recalled meeting Bugs Bunny, say University of Washington researchers.
Some women who have sex with other women may be risking their health because they may not have Pap smears as often as other women.
The world sounds very different to infants than it does to adults, sometimes being filled with a cacophony of sounds that makes it diffcult for babies to distinguish a single sound. That's because babies are generalists and hear all frequencies simultaneously, says a University of Washington researcher.
A mass extinction about 200 million years ago, which destroyed at least half of the species on Earth, happened very quickly and is demonstrated in the fossil record by the collapse of one-celled organisms called protists, according to new research led by a University of Washington paleontologist.
People don't get married, make friends or try to maintain ties with sibling to have those relationships fail. Yet many fail because people don't pay enough attention to the emotional needs of others, says University of Washington psychologist John Gottman, author of the new book "The Relationship Cure."
The movement of a cell stretches the proteins around it, and vice versa. A University of Washington study says scientists are going to have to study how protein structures change when stretched before they can understand how the body functions.
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