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New Open-Access Battery Lab Aims to Boost U.S. Manufacturing and Workforce Development for Electric Vehicles and Beyond

Expansion of Washington Clean Energy Testbeds will enable fabrication of pouch cells to accelerate the next generation of faster-charging, higher-energy-density, and earth-friendly batteries.
11-Oct-2024 2:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Q&A: UW Researchers Examine Link Between Light Pollution and Interest in Astronomy

Rodolfo Cortes Barragan, research scientist the University of Washington Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS), and Andrew Meltzoff, co-director of I-LABS and professor of psychology, recently co-authored a study in Nature Scientific...
2-Oct-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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To Make Fluid Flow in One Direction Down a Pipe, It Helps to Be a Shark

Researchers have discovered a new way to help liquid flow in only one direction, but without using the flaps that engines and our circulatory system rely upon to prevent fluid backup.
25-Sep-2024 9:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Pushing Kidney-Stone Fragments Reduces Stones’ Recurrence

UW Medicine researchers found that patients who underwent the stone-moving ultrasound procedure had a 70% lower risk of such a recurrence. The Journal of Urology published the findings in August.
19-Sep-2024 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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What’s for Dinner? Scientists Unearth Key Clues to Cuisine of Resident Killer Whales

Scientists have discovered the cuisine preferences of two resident killer whale populations: the Alaska residents and the endangered southern residents. The two populations show broad preference for salmon, particularly Chinook, chum and coho. But...
19-Sep-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Explaining Dramatic Planetwide Changes After World’s Last ‘Snowball Earth’ Event

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet’s history are “Snowball Earth” events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.6 miles thick. New research from the...
18-Sep-2024 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

AI Researcher Discusses the New Version of ChatGPT’s Advances in Math and Reasoning

Niloofar Mireshghallah, a UW postdoctoral scholar, discusses why math and reasoning have so challenged artificial intelligence models and what the public should know about OpenAI’s new release.
17-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Ultra-Low-Dose Ketamine Can Curb Opioid Withdrawal

Research findings published Aug. 29 in Addiction Science & Clinical Practice may offer hope. A pilot study showed that a small amount of ketamine can reduce or eliminate the withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting fentanyl.
17-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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Q&A: How the Remote Hub Lab Can Prepare Engineering Students for Their Future Careers

Rania Hussein, a University of Washington associate teaching professor in the electrical and computer engineering department, founded and leads the Remote Hub Lab, which allows students to access physical engineering equipment from anywhere in the...
23-Sep-2024 1:05 PM EDT

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Q&A: UW researcher aims to understand common women’s sports injuries

Several common injuries seem to haunt women’s sports. Jenny Robinson, a University of Washington assistant professor, is interested in designing better methods to help female athletes train to prevent and recover from injuries.
23-Jul-2024 1:05 PM EDT

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Q&A: The climate change toll on roads — two UW professors weigh in

Two University of Washington researchers are investigating how to mitigate the effects of climate change on common road pavements, such as asphalt and concrete.
16-Jul-2024 12:05 PM EDT

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Q&A: How to train AI when you don't have enough data

As researchers explore potential applications for AI, they have found scenarios where AI could be really useful but there’s not enough data to accurately train the algorithms. Jenq-Neng Hwang, University of Washington professor of electrical and...
28-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT

Q&A: How a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease could also work for Type 2 diabetes

Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 diabetes are part of a family of amyloid diseases that are characterized by having proteins that cluster together. University of Washington researchers have demonstrated more similarities between the two diseases.
29-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST

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Q&A: Helping robots identify objects in cluttered spaces

Robots in warehouses and even around our houses struggle to identify and pick up objects if they are too close together, or if a space is cluttered.
7-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST

Q&A: UW researchers answer common questions about language models like ChatGPT

A team University of Washington researchers have published a guide explaining language models, the technology that underlies chatbots.
9-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST

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