The right kind of job training -- in a realistic business setting, combined with counseling and personal support -- can reduce the odds of returning to a life of crime, University of Washington researchers have found.
University of Washington physicists have come up with a new calculation for the Earth's mass -- 5.972 sextillion metric tons -- while working to establish the most precise measurement ever achieved of Isaac Newton's gravitational constant.
The University of Washington has selected Robert Pinsky, the 39th poet laureate of the U.S., to be the commencement speaker in ceremonies to be held June 10.
The number of Web visitors can be more crucial than sales or profits in making a stock sink or float, according to an analysis of 86 publicly traded Internet companies.
In homes with wife abuse, children aged 14 and older are more than three times as likely to be physically abused than are younger children aged 1 through 13, a University of Washington study examining the risks of child abuse has found.
List is given of University of Washington experts monitoring recovery and seismic activity of Mount St. Helens, 20 years after it exploded.
New polymers developed by chemists and engineers at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California appear to achieve speed and capacity increases so great that they will revolutionize telecommunications, data processing, sensing and display technologies.
A method of treating malaria with oscillating magnetic fields that cause the malaria parasite to lose vigor and die by affecting tiny iron-containing particles within the organism has been discovered by University of Washington researchers.
Trying to determine why marriages flourish or end in divorce, University of Washington psychologists have refined a tool that predicts with 87 percent accuracy which newlywed couples will remain married and which will divorce four to six years later (Journal of Family Psychology).
A short-term climate cycle that builds in the Indian Ocean and moves eastward through the equatorial Pacific Ocean is a key factor in the formation of hurricanes and tropical storms over the Gulf of Mexico and the western Caribbean Sea, University of Washington researchers have found (Science, 3-16-00).
A new website that measures candidate preferences shows a lack of association between people's conscious and unconscious preference for presidential candidates.
The health of the ecosystem is rooted in a complex codependency between plants and animals that produce organic matter and simple organisms that break it down, suggests University of Washington research (Nature, 2-17-00).
A book by University of Washington scientists contends that, contrary to popular thought, we, as highly evolved beings, just might be alone, and that advanced life might make Earth unique.
Evidence from the accidental introduction of an Old World fruit fly, which has exhibited one of the fastest evolution changes ever recorded, boosts the idea of evolution being part of the strategy used by invading species, as reported in this week's Science.
Using the Hubble telescope, three University of Washington astronomers have made some surprising discoveries about Hubble's research.
Climate phenomenon called the Arctic Oscillation has wide-ranging effects in the Northern Hemisphere and operates differently from other known climate cycles, say scientists from the University of Washington and Northwest Research Associates.
A new technique using ice-penetrating radar is allowing scientists to reveal long-ago changes in West Antarctic ice streams, rivers of ice believed to be linked to the stability of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet. A University of Washington geophysics researcher discussed radar measurements at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
A plume of pollution that crossed the Pacific Ocean from Asia contained ozone at levels high enough to violate a new federal ozone standard, a researcher from the University of Washington has found.
Microwaves similar to those emitted by cell phones have been linked to diminished long-term memory and navigating skills in rats, according to a new University of Washington study.
Individuals with certain personality styles -- those who are aggressive and those who have low dependency on other people -- are at higher risk for recurrent bouts of major depression.
Climate models show the three-state Columbia River Basin is likely to have significantly higher temperatures and greater precipitation 50 years from now. But scientists warn that public institutions charged with preparing for that future are ill equipped to do so.
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- about the size of Texas and Colorado combined -- has been receding steadily for 10,000 years and poses the most immediate threat of a large sea level rise because of its potential instability, a new study indicates. Its complete collapse would raise global sea level 15 to 20 feet.
The next time you glance at a baby in a crib, apprciate the fact that you are looking at more than just another cute face. You are peering at what scientists are starting to believe is the greatest learning machine in the universe. In fact, the authors of a new book propose that the way babies acquire knowleage is much the same as adults use the scientific method to conduct research.
Dyslexic children use nearly five times the brain areas as normal children while performing a simple language task, according to a new University of Washington study that also show for the first time that there are chemical differences in the brain function of dyslexic and non-dyslexic children.
Two University of Washington zoology professors are proposing a novel hypothesis for how metamorphosis evolved among four groups of higher insects. They believe a change in hormonal function during embryonic development led to the evolution of a unique larval stage.
It is possible to predict which newlywed couples will divorce from the way partners interact in just the first three minutes of a discussion about an area of marital conflict, according to University of Washington researchers.
Organic properties of some pollution particles can increase the number of cloud droplets, allowing more sunlight than normal to be reflected into space. The phenomenon affects climate locally, and probably regionally, say researchers from the Consilio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Bologna, Italy, and the University of Washington in Seattle.
The highest-achieving children who were exposed to the Head Start program before entering elementary school are thriving academically and socially at the end of the third grade, but data from a new national study creates worries that their future success may be tempered by their luke-warm attitude toward school.
For children with learning disabilities success at reading and mathematics isn't always as easy as learning their ABCs or that two plus two equals four. Their inability to automatically retrieve such basic building blocks as letters and numbers leads to impiared ability in reading, writing and arithmetic, a new study shows.
A new propulsion system dubbed M2P2 could greatly boost spacecraft speeds, perhaps to 10 times the velocity of the space shuttle, and might power the first craft to leave the Solar System, University of Washington scientists believe.
For millions of business travelers, flying is no picnic. Instead it is a stressful ordeal that has become an integral part of their working lives. But it doesn't necessarilly have to be according to University of Washington researchers who have developed a scale to measrue air-travel stress and have detected differences in the stress experienced by male and female frequently fliers.
For nearly a decade, a University of Washington atmospheric chemist has advanced the notion that, in some regions, submicron-sized particles from industrial pollution are actually countering the atmospheric warming effects of greenhouse gases. Now NASA is planning the PICASSO-CENA mission to gather crucial data to better understand the role of those particles in human-caused climate change.
University of Washington researchers say a Northern Hemisphere climate cycle they call the Arctic oscillation has far-reaching impact in North America. Significant changes in the cycle in the last 30 years have influenced temperature and precipitation patterns throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Unconscious prejudice towards blacks and the elderly can be significantly decreased by exposing people to images of admired members of those groups, University of Washington psychologists will report at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting.
Like a collage of photographs showing a human being from infancy to old age, a striking new picture unveiled today by a University of Washington astronomer shows various stages in the life cycle of stars, all occurring at one time.
Despite this year's record snowfall in the Pacific Northwest, the amount of water stored as mountain snowpack is projected to drop significantly in the long run, a change that could repaint the face of the region and drastically alter how water is used and allocated, according to University of Washington researchers.
Just being exposed to a story about a fictitious childhood experience can alter people's memories to the point that half of them believe the incident probably occurred even though they previously said it did not, University of Washington researchers will report at the American Psychological Society annual meeting.
Secretin, a hormone that some parents claim possesses almost magical properties as a treatment for autism, will be scientifically tested in large-scale trials starting later this month in Seattle and Denver.
In 25 years, the Endangered Species Act has spawned numerous recovery plans, but there still the question of how well the listed species are recovering. Now a University of Washington zoologist is spearheading a comprehensive scientific review of 200 recovery plans, which could lead to an appraisal of how well the plans work.
Julian Bond, chair of the board of the NAACP, will speak at the University of Washington commencement June 12.
Martian Standard Time takes effect in January 2002 when a sundial designed and assembled at the University of Washington lands on the red planet aboard NASA's 2001 Mars Surveyor. The project is part of a package of experiments being produced by Cornell University.
University of Washintion bioengineers, reporting in the April 15 issue of Nature, describe a process for coating medical implants with tiny imprints that bind specific proteins. This coating may trigger natural healing rather than the body's typical, and often disruptive, reaction to medical implants.
Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems were significantly slashed among a group of high-risk college-age drinkers using a brief, non-confrontational intervention treatment developed by University of Washington researchers.
Like teenage boys hanging out on a street corner, animals behave differently when they're in a large group than when they're by themselves. The mechanics and patterns of nature's aggregations - schooling fish, flocking birds or swarming insects - help understand how such groups behave in, and survive, trying conditions, says a University of Washington zoologist.
It happens every spring. Tens of millions of American children turn out for organized youth sports. Tagging along behind them are their parents, many of whom don't understand their roles and responsibilities according to a pair of sports psychologists who have written a new book to guide parents through the mindfield that sports can be.
Scientists from the University of Washington and the British Antarctic Survey explain in the March 25 Nature how they successfully used ground-penetrating radar to show the precise location for each layer of glacial ice, a key to correctly interpreting ice cores to glean climate data.
Friendship with your spouse is the foundation of a happy marriage says a University of Washington psychologist after nearly 25 years of studying what makes marriages blossom or shrivel. "Men aren't from Mars, nor women from Venus," but really want the same thing from a relationships, he says.
A package of interventions targeted at teachers, parents and children throughout the elementary school years had long-lasting effects in reducing levels of violent behavior, drinking and sexual intercourse and in improving school performance at age 18 among urban children, according to a study by University of Washington
University of Washington engineers are testing a new concrete framing system that enables large buildings to ride out an earthquake with minimal damage. The system employs concrete columns and beams reinforced with steel cables stretched like rubber bands which pull a building back to its original position after an earthquake.
For three decades social scientists have had little success in figuring out how a person's race affects the outcomes of crimnal cases. Now University of Washington researchers have found that court reports prepared prior to sentencing by probation officers consistenly portray black and white juvenile offenders differently, leading to harsher sentencing recommendations for blacks.
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