Science

Seattle researchers have taken a key step toward beating back the world’s leading cause of death by regrowing damaged heart tissue in monkeys....

Horses have been used therapeutically for years, but new research from Washington State University provides some of the first scientific evidence that...

It turns out the Washington state fish is a piece of evolutionary wonder. An international group of scientists sequenced the genome of the rainbow...

New research out of the University of Washington shows that an insect with a brain smaller than a salt grain can take complex evasive action in flight....

A University of Washington research team has developed technology that could let people control devices with hand gestures. And the sensor doesn’t use...

Think of the immense amount of stuff in the cosmos: stars, planets, interstellar dust and clusters of galaxies. Now consider this: all that stuff is...

Scientists have long known that brain training can help older adults stay sharp, but a new study co-authored by a Seattle scientist shows those benefits...

The National Football League is paying for a Seattle scientist to study head injuries in student athletes, testing a solution to the problem of how to...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment of a two-part series. Learn how scorpion vemon led local researchers to the brink of discovery of a new...

The Deathstalker scorpion is about the size of your palm. It’s yellow and surly, its venom a seething cocktail of neurotoxins. And somewhere in that...

People fighting hunger in the developing world have noticed a troubling mystery: malnourished children sometimes fail to get healthier even when given a...

Organic dairy products may have a major nutritional advantage over conventional milk, Washington researchers have found in a study that could affect...

Seattle researchers and investors are making a massive bet on a new cancer-fighting technology. The new startup, called Juno Therapeutics, is working...

A University of Washington researcher may have helped solve a Martian mystery by explaining how the chilly surface of Mars could have once flowed with...

Quick quiz: In springtime, does snow melt faster out in the open or in the shade? You might figure it melts faster in the sunshine, and that seems to be...