Engineers at the 蘑菇视频 have for the first time developed a method to safely charge a smartphone wirelessly using a laser.
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Five faculty members at the 蘑菇视频 have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 15, include Maya Cakmak, assistant professor of computer science and engineering; Jiun-Haw Chu, assistant professor of clean energy and physics; Arka Majumdar, assistant professor of electrical engineering and physics; Jessica Werk, assistant professor of astronomy; and Chelsea Wood, assistant professor of aquatic and fishery sciences.
蘑菇视频 engineers have turned tissue paper 鈥� similar to toilet tissue 鈥� into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement.
In a paper published Feb. 9 in Science Advances, scientists at the 蘑菇视频 announced that they have successfully combined two different imaging methods 鈥� a type of lens designed for nanoscale interaction with lightwaves, along with robust computational processing 鈥� to create full-color images.
New findings could help scientists understand a little more about the elusive narwhal and how these marine mammals might fare in a changing climate.
A team of ecologists and economists is the first to test whether real-life ecological interactions produce economic benefits for the fishing industry. The results were published online Jan. 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A study from the University of Colorado Boulder and the 蘑菇视频 finds that the retreat of the ice sheet covering North America made Antarctic weather more similar from one year to the next.
High-speed recordings of Egyptian fruit bats in flight show that instead of using a primitive form of echolocation, these animals actually use a technique recently developed by humans for surveillance and navigation.
After six months of repair and restoration 鈥� assisted by 蘑菇视频 astronomer and sundial expert Woody Sullivan 鈥� Olympia’s iconic Territorial Sundial is back in place.
蘑菇视频 atmospheric sciences faculty and graduate students are in Tasmania studying how clouds form over Antarctica’s Southern Ocean.
A team of astronomers including Eric Agol of the 蘑菇视频 has found that the seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could even have more water 鈥� which can give life a chance 鈥� than Earth itself. The research was led by Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland, and published Feb. 5 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Agol is among about two dozen co-authors. The scientists…
After an “extreme makeover” that went from stem to stern on five decks of the ship, the R/V Thomas G. Thompson is ready to get back to work exploring the world’s oceans. The 蘑菇视频’s School of Oceanography, part of the College of the Environment, operates the 274-foot ship, which arrived on campus in 1991. In summer 2016, with funding from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation and the 蘑菇视频, the vessel headed to a…
The Department of Energy鈥檚 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the 蘑菇视频 announced the creation of the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry and Technology 鈥� or NW IMPACT 鈥� a joint research endeavor to power discoveries and advancements in materials that transform energy, telecommunications, medicine, information technology and other fields.
In a published Jan. 25 in Current Biology, 蘑菇视频 researchers report that mosquitoes can learn to associate a particular odor with an unpleasant mechanical shock akin to being swatted. As a result, they’ll avoid that scent the next time.
A 蘑菇视频 study has found a simple approach to look for life that might be more promising than just looking for oxygen.
Researchers from the Molecular Information Systems Lab at the 蘑菇视频 and Microsoft are looking to collect 10,000 original images from around the world to preserve them indefinitely in synthetic DNA manufactured by Twist Bioscience. DNA holds promise as a revolutionary storage medium that lasts much longer and is many orders of magnitude denser than current technologies.
By developing a synthetic version of the plant hormone auxin and an engineered receptor to recognize it, 蘑菇视频 biology professor Keiko Torii and her colleagues are poised to uncover plants’ inner workings, raising the possibility of a new way to ripen fruits such as strawberries and tomatoes.
蘑菇视频 researchers have published the first major assessment of small hydropower dams around the world 鈥� including their potential for growth 鈥� and highlight the incredibly variability in how dams of varying sizes are categorized, regulated and studied.
For this year’s University Faculty Lecture, 蘑菇视频 chemistry professor Michael Gelb will discuss the science behind screening newborns for treatable 鈥� but rare 鈥� genetic diseases.
An experiment using hundreds of plastic drifters in the Gulf of Mexico shows that rather than simply spread out, as current calculations would predict, many of them clumped together in a tight cluster.
More than three centuries ago, a French monk made thousands of drawings of plants and animals, traveling under the authority of King Louis XIV to the French Antilles to collect and document the natural history of the islands. These drawings were often the first ever recorded for each species and were completed in remarkable detail. The illustrations were nearly lost forever during the tumultuous French Revolution, and the volumes compiled by Father Charles Plumier were discovered by chance, found serving…
A new study in the Journal PLOS ONE details what removing the two dams on the Elwha River meant for the nearshore marine ecosystem.
A new grant will let a 蘑菇视频-based project add a new fleet to its quest to learn more about past climate from the records of long-gone mariners. The 蘑菇视频 is among the winners of the 2017 鈥淒igitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives鈥� awards, announced Jan. 4 by the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Library and Information Resources. The new $482,018 grant to the 蘑菇视频, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and the National Archives Foundation will support 鈥淪eas…
A small group of fishes 鈥� possibly the world’s cleverest carnivorous grazers 鈥� feeds on the scales of other fish in the tropics. A team led by biologists at the 蘑菇视频’s Friday Harbor Laboratories is trying to understand these scale-feeding fish and how this odd diet influences their body evolution and behavior.
Drug treatments can save lives, but sometimes they also carry unintended costs. After all, the same therapeutics that target pathogens and tumors can also harm healthy cells. To reduce this collateral damage, scientists have long sought specificity in drug delivery systems: A package that can encase a therapeutic and will not disgorge its toxic cargo until it reaches the site of treatment 鈥� be it a tumor, a diseased organ or a site of infection. In a paper published Jan….
The 蘑菇视频 Reality Lab is launching with $6 million from Facebook, Google, and Huawei to accelerate innovation in augmented and virtual reality and educate the next generation of researchers and practitioners.
蘑菇视频 astronomers Brett Morris and James Davenport assisted in new research on “Tabby’s Star,” named for Louisiana State University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian.
Now serving its sixth cohort of students, the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship has helped more than 8,400 students attend the state鈥檚 universities and colleges. The 蘑菇视频 has the largest number of scholarship recipients 鈥� 1,679 across all three campuses 鈥� and has seen more than 1,300 scholars graduate.
A new partnership between the 蘑菇视频 and Paul G. Allen Philanthropies will use a network of robots to observe conditions beneath a floating Antarctic ice shelf.
Recognizing that many large dams are here to stay, a 蘑菇视频 team is investigating an emerging solution to help achieve freshwater conservation goals by re-envisioning the ways in which water is released by dams.
Researchers from the 蘑菇视频, Chapman University and University of Guelph have published new research showing how hagfishes survive an initial attack from predators before they release large volumes of slime to defend themselves.
A new NSF-funded project will use findings in the Mekong River basin as an example of how three critical issues 鈥� feeding people, generating energy and maintaining functioning ecosystems 鈥� can be addressed thoughtfully and progressively in the developing world.
New faculty member Shuyi Chen answers some questions about hurricane science, hurricane forecasting and the 2017 storm season.
The Anthropocene epoch 鈥� the proposed name for this time of significant human effect on the planet and its systems 鈥� represents a new context in which to study literature. A new book of essays co-edited by Jesse Oak Taylor, 蘑菇视频 associate professor of English, argues that literary studies, in turn, also can help us better understand the Anthropocene.
The 蘑菇视频, Arizona State University and other collaborators have proposed a method in the Dec. 8 issue of Science that allows hydroelectric dam operators to generate power in ways that protect 鈥� and possibly improve 鈥� food supplies and businesses throughout the Mekong river basin in Southeast Asia.
Scientists at the 蘑菇视频 show for the first time that the complex distribution of molecules within a membrane of a living yeast cell arises through demixing.
The 蘑菇视频 has launched a new institute aimed at accelerating research at the nanoscale: the Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems, or NanoES. The institute will pursue impactful advancements in a variety of disciplines 鈥� including energy, materials science, computation and medicine. Yet these advancements will be at a technological scale a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.
An interdisciplinary team is using a covert sound-based approach, worthy of an avian CSI, to study the link between crows’ calls and their behavior.
蘑菇视频 engineers have developed the first 3-D printed plastic objects that can connect to other devices via WiFi without using any electronics, including a laundry bottle that can detect when soap is running low and automatically order more.
Kim Nasmyth, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Oxford and former postdoctoral researcher at the 蘑菇视频, is one of five recipients of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Nasmyth and other prize recipients were honored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation at a ceremony December 3 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.