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Mar 11 | News
Computers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a Univ. of Washington computer scientist with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same computer command, you should get back the same result.
Feb 9 | News
People with cystic fibrosis frequently have lung infections that defy treatment. These chronic infections are often caused by common, environmental microbes that mutate in ways that let them live and thrive in viscous lung secretions. The same adaptations also make the pathogens less likely to be killed off by powerful antibiotics.
Feb 3 | News
Materials scientists at the Univ. of Washington have built a three-dimensional scaffold out of a natural material that mimics the binding sites for stem cells, allowing the cells to reproduce on a clean, biodegradable structure. Results show that human embryonic stem cells grow and multiply readily on the structure.
Jan 29 | News
A team of scientists from the Univ. of Washington has devised a new way to explore how phase transitions function in less than three dimensions and at the level of just a few atoms. They hope the technique will be useful to test aspects of what until now has been purely theoretical physics, and they hope it also might have practical applications for sensing conditions at very tiny scales, such as in a cell membrane.
Jan 21 | News
Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth's "climate sensitivity"—the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
Jan 11 | RDBlog
How pure is our drinking water? The answer to that question varies by region, country, etc. But what has begun to scare me is the threat of toxins polluting drinking water everywhere.
Jan 5 | News
Testing hair from Asian monkeys living close to people may provide early warnings of toxic threats to humans and wildlife. Since in parts of South and Southeast Asia, macaques and people are synanthropic, researchers hypothesized that these animals would be good sentinels for human exposure to lead in common drinking water.
12/21/2009 | RDBlog
Stereotypes could be what drive females away from the computer science fields according to a press release issued by the Univ. of Washington. Being a female, the first thing I think about computer scientists are men with beer bellies that stay up all night coding, have no social life, and play video games or watc Star Trek (and not the new movie, the old shows) religiously. According to a study done by researchers at the Univ. of Washington, these stereotypes are brought on by the appearance of the environment people work in.
10/6/2009 | News
The Univ.
of Washington has become
the first American university to collaborate with the well-known Italian
sports-car company. Their cars already use carbon fiber composites extensively,
and the new lab is intended to push the science further to create lighter,
stronger materials for use in cars and other manufactured products.
9/25/2009 | News
A team of engineers and artists working at the Univ. of Washington's Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer. The technique allows a new type of material to be used in such devices. The team's method, which it named the Vitraglyphic process, is a follow-up to the Solheim Lab's success last spring printing with ceramics.