Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars - maybe even a planet, if you're lucky - and a sense of wonder washes of you.

Over the past decade, engineering jobs have dramatically changed. They've become more collaborative, for example, and students entering the workforce are expected to have a broader skillset than previous generations of engineers.

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) thick.

Mia Bennett , University of Washington assistant professor of geography, will spend a week this month in Norway as part of the orientation for the Fulbright Arctic IV Initiative.

UW researchers develop a stretchable, wearable device that lights up an LED using only the warmth of your skin One of the drawbacks of fitness trackers and other wearable devices is that their batteries eventually run out of juice.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world implemented restrictive measures - such as stay-at-home orders and school closures - to mitigate the spread of the respiratory illness.

The universe is a dynamic place where galaxies are dancing, merging and shifting appearance. Unfortunately, because these changes take millions or billions of years, telescopes can only provide snapshots, squeezed into a human lifetime.

Flaps perform essential jobs. From pumping hearts to revving engines, flaps help fluid flow in one direction. Without them, keeping liquids going in the right direction is challenging to do.

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has uncovered key information about what resident killer whale populations are eating.

On Sept. OpenAI announced a new ChatGPT model that the company says is substantially better at math and science than previous versions, which struggled with reasoning.

Ashleigh Theberge , associate professor of chemistry at the University of Washington, has been named to the Schmidt Sciences Polymath Program, entitling her to grants of up to $2.5 million over five years to "pursue ri

The Salish Sea - the inland coastal waters of Washington and British Columbia - is home to two unique populations of fish-eating orcas, the northern resident and the southern resident orcas.

A high-pitched buzzing sound in your ear is an unmistakable sign that a female mosquito is out on the hunt - for they, not males, drink blood. Hearing that tone might make you turn to try to swat the pest.

An external study of Twitter in 2022 estimated that between a third and two thirds of accounts on the social media site were bots. And many of these automatons flooding social media are dispatched to sow political polarization, hate, misinformation, propaganda and scams.