A new method to rate tornado warnings shows that nighttime tornadoes in the U.S. have a lower probability of detection and a higher false-alarm rate than other events. Summertime tornadoes, occurring in June, July or August, also are more likely to eva…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Scientists describe earliest primate fossils
A new study published Feb. 24 in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents the earliest-known fossil evidence of primates. These creatures lived less than 150,000 years after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event that killed off non-avi…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Effective treatment for insomnia delivered in a few short phone calls
In a statewide study of adults over 60 with osteoarthritis, researchers found that effective treatment for insomnia can be delivered in a few short phone calls.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: UW researchers have engineered heart tissue that beats like a tiny human heart
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: UW researchers have engineered heart tissue that beats like a tiny human heart
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Limiting Warming to 2 C Requires Emissions Reductions 80% Above Paris Agreement Targets
Even if all countries meet their Paris Agreement goals for reducing emissions, Earth has only a 5% chance of staying below 2 C warming this century, a 2017 study showed. But reductions about 80% more ambitious, or an average of 1.8% drop in emissions p…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: To counter health impacts of racism, UW School of Nursing establishing Center for Antiracism in Nursing
Recognizing that nurses play a central role in and hold major responsibility for the health of individuals and communities hit hard by historic racial inequity, the University of Washington School of Nursing is launching the Center for Antiracism in Nu…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: New nationwide survey shows MAGA supporters’ beliefs about the pandemic, the election and the insurrection
New data from the University of Washington, collected just before and after the Capitol riot, reveals fervent Trump voters’ opinions about race, gender, the pandemic and the 2020 election.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: ‘Audeo’ teaches artificial intelligence to play the piano
A University of Washington team created Audeo, a system that can generate music using only visual cues of someone playing the piano.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Global Warming Found to Be Culprit for Flood Risk in Peruvian Andes, Other Glacial Lakes
Human-caused warming is responsible for increasing the risk of a glacial outburst flood from Peru’s Lake Palcacocha, threatening the city below. This study is the first to directly link climate change with the risk of flooding from glacial lakes, which…
