Researchers in recent years have found water vapor at concentrations as much as twice what they should be in and around cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere, a finding that could alter some conclusions about climate change. A group of European and U.S. scientists is advocating a broad research effort to solve the puzzle.
It's time for the United States to have a national climate service "“ an interagency partnership led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and charged with understanding climate dynamics, forecasts and impacts "“ say six members of the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group.
A technique used since the 1930s to estimate the abundance of fish has shown for the first time that enforcement patrols are effective at reducing poaching of elephants, African buffaloes and black rhinos in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
A particularly resilient type of carbon from the first plants to regrow after the last ice age "“ and that same type of carbon from all the plants since "“ appears to have been accumulating for 11,000 years in the forests of British Columbia, Canada.
Brain and behavior relationships may have changed in a profound way as larger, more complex insect societies evolved from smaller, simpler ones, according to new research.
A University of Washington professor contends that penalties imposed upon public companies that falsify accounting records are miniscule compared with the costs incurred when news of a company's misdeeds spreads and its reputation spoils.
New University of Washington research suggests insects' ability to adapt to warmer temperatures carries an unexpected consequence "“ more insects.
Mobilizing on the Web is becoming a key tool for national campaigns, particularly in tight races, researchers find.
New research shows earthquake swarms can occur any place that is seismically active, not just near volcanoes and geothermal regions.
New research suggests a multi-million year gap in the colonization of Earth's land by marine creatures might have been caused by a sharp drop in atmospheric oxygen.
Marketing executives should add new product features for upgraders and improve existing ones for first-time buyers if they want to sell more products, according to an assistant professor of marketing.
The foremost myth about resource geology is that the world is running out of oil, a University of Washington geologist says, and he wants to dispel that and other false notions about mineral resources.
A new technique for measuring brain activity shows that various brain regions in people with autism do not communicate with each other as efficiently as they do in other people.
University of Washington researcher says we're doing a poor job of figuring out who's being left behind in the digital world.
A University of Washington marine affairs expert has been named to chair the science advisory board of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency responsible for such things as weather and climate prediction, fisheries management and coastal area protection and restoration.
People who have mixed emotions--feeling sad and happy at the same time--are more creative than people who are feeling just happy, sad, or have no emotions at all, according to a new study by the University of Washington.
The Creative Writing Program at the University of Washington has been promised an estimated $15 million, the largest bequest ever made to the College of Arts & Sciences.
Investor relations professionals retaliate against analysts who don't give favorable stock recommendations on their companies by excluding them from analyst-firm meetings and refusing to answer questions during conference calls, according to a new study.
Children who were exposed to violence in the home engaged in higher levels of physical bullying than youngsters who were not witnesses to such behavior, according to a new University of Washington and Indiana University study.
New research suggests Antarctica has been getting gradually warmer for the last 150 years, a trend not identifiable in the short meteorological records and masked at the end of the 20th century by large temperature variations.
New research shows fast-warming climate appears to be triggering genetic changes in a species of fruit fly that is native to Europe and was introduced into North and South America about 25 years ago.
The Alps might have reached their zenith 6 million years ago and have been declining since. New research suggests the culprit was likely massive erosion, triggered by a sudden drop in the level of the Mediterranean Sea and then prolonged by a warmer, wetter climate.
Psychologists looking at the largely unknown world of how children perceive the future have found that the youngsters' choices are warped when they are caught up in a primal desire such as thirst.
A study exploring smoking, heavy drinking and marijuana use across three generations indicates that the children of a parent who use any of these substances are more likely to smoke, binge drink or use marijuana in adolescence and adulthood.
Scientists have devised a way to use the fossil teeth of ancient bison as a tool to reconstruct historic climate and vegetation changes in America's breadbasket, the Great Plains.
A mixture of zinc oxide and cobalt, first formulated in 1780 as a pigment called cobalt green, appears capable of allowing electrons to be manipulated magnetically at room temperature without losing its magnetism.
Different genes may be responsible for causing autism in boys than in girls, as well as playing a role in the early onset form of the developmental disorder and the late, or regression, form of autism.
Researchers running computer simulations for four nearby systems that contain giant planets about the size of Jupiter have found one that could have formed an Earth-like planet with the right conditions to support life.
A breakthrough in the calculations needed to understand the strong nuclear force that comes from the motion of quarks and gluons is allowing scientists to begin finding answers to some profound questions.
Using new technology that measrues the magnetic field generated by the activation of brain neurons, researchers tracked what appears to be a link between the listening and speaking areas of infants before they can speak.
Women with a serious mental disorder called borderline personality disorder who received a specialized form of cognitive behavioral therapy were half as likely to attempt suicide as women who were treated by expert therapists in dealing with difficult patients. In addition, the women who received the treatment called dialectical behavior therapy also were less likely to go to an emergency room for suicidal behavior.
People who were given a simple visual task while mildly intoxicated were twice as likely to have missed seeing a person in a gorilla suit than were people who were not under the influence.
Restoring degraded ecosystems around Seattle "“ and giving them a fighting chance to stay healthy "“ can be as much about PR as the right plants. That's what students learn through the University of Washington's Restoration Ecology Network, a program of teaching and research recognized nationally in this week's issue of Science magazine.
Taking a page from the treatment book on alcohol abuse, researchers from the University of Washington have successfully tested a brief, low-cost intervention to deal with depression, the No. 1 mental health problem in the United States.
Non-fatal, self-inflicted injuries by adolescent and young adult females are major public health problems and researchers have found physiological evidence that this behavior may lead to a more serious psychological condition called borderline personality disorder.
A new satellite gathering data from the Earth's atmosphere could be a key tool in unraveling just how much effect the reflectivity of clouds and tiny particles called aerosols are having on the changing climate.
New research shows organisms called eukaryotes, ancestors of the animal and plant species present today, existed 50 million to 100 million years before an ice age that created 'Snowball Earth' some 2.3 billion years ago.
Based on current trends for both air and water temperatures, by 2100 the body temperatures of California mussels "“ found along thousands of miles of coast in the northeast Pacific Ocean and not just in California "“ could increase between about 2 degrees F and 6.5 F depending on where they live.
HIV infection is significantly more common among non-Hispanic blacks than it is among any other young adult racial or ethnic group in the United States, according to the first study drawn from the nation's general youth population.
New research shows that in the caterpillar of the tobacco hawkmoth, tissues called imaginal discs, which give rise to structures such as the legs and eyes, form and grow despite severe starvation unless a substance called juvenile hormone is present.
Scientists investigating the genetic makeup of rhesus macaque monkeys, a key species used in biomedical research, have found the rhesus in Nepal may provide a suitable alternative to alleviate a critical shortage of laboratory animals used in work to develop vaccines against diseases such as HIV/AIDS.
The atmosphere is warming faster around 30 degrees north and south latitude than elsewhere, new research shows. But scientists examining more than 25 years of satellite data also found that each hemisphere's jet stream has moved toward the pole by about 1 degree of latitude, which could widen the tropics and expand some of the world's driest regions.
At a time when some say privacy has gone the way of the Dodo bird, University of Washington researchers find evidence that a significant minority cling to an expectation of privacy even in public places. They also found a marked difference in views depending on gender.
University of Washington TechTransfer announced today it has licensed a computer-aided cardiovascular analysis system to VPDiagnostics, Inc., a Washington state firm.
New research disputes a notion held by many geologists and seismologists that the Kamchatka Peninsula on Russia's east coast actually is on the North America plate, the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States.
Multiracial adolescents in middle school are significantly more likely to engage in problems behavior such as violence and substance use than are single-race young people.
When it comes to talking about suicide, American avoid the topic much the way they used to skirt talk about sex 20 years ago. But the president of the American Association of Suicidology says the time is long overdue for people to start talking about the problem and to launch suicide awareness and prevention programs in the nation's schools.
New University of Washington research shows that a regulatory gene named broad, known to be necessary for development of insects that undergo complete metamorphosis, also is key for the maturation of insects that have incomplete metamorphosis.
University of Washington scientists have developed a screening process to detect enzyme deficiencies in newborns that could allow treatment of devastating conditions such as Tay-Sachs and Gaucher syndromes to begin before too much damage has been done.
If you think you've got a bad boss, one who loves to chew people out, or if you work with backstabbing co-workers, be thankful you are not a wasp. If you were, chances are your nestmates might bite you to communicate that it is time for you to leave the nest and forage for the colony.
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