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  • "Spooky action" builds a wormhole between particles

    Quantum entanglement, a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as "spooky action at a distance," could be even spookier than Einstein perceived.
    12/03/2013 | UW Today
  • Sparrows exude personalities during fights

    Like humans, some song sparrows are more effusive than others, at least when it comes to defending their territories.
    12/03/2013 | UW Today
  • Inside 'Oliver': Costuming a Big-Budget Musical

    After 20 years as executive director of the UW's School of Drama, Sarah Nash Gates is retiring at the end of this year. However, Gates isn't putting her feet up, instead she's pursuing her passion for costume design.
    12/02/2013 | City Arts Magazine
  • Condos for penguins

    A University of Washington penguin researcher, one of the top in the world, is getting global attention for a novel idea she has to help save one of the most charismatic animals of all: Penguins.
    11/26/2013 | KOMO
  • The spacecraft that helped UW find planets needs help

    The Kepler space telegraph hit the skids in May after its precision-pointing system failed. But engineers have given it a new way to steady its aim, along with hope for a new NASA mission.
    11/26/2013 | The Christian Science Monitor
  • Greenhouse gas might have warmed early Mars enough to allow liquid water

    The mystery of how the surface of Mars, long dead and dry, could have flowed with water billions of years ago may have been solved by research that included a University of Washington astronomer.
    11/25/2013 | UW Today
  • Old fashioned protests give way to online political activism

    Are the days of "Hey, hey - Ho, ho," giving way to a world of keyboard typing and mouse double clicking? A new University of Washington study took a look at the changing way we fight for change and found the best way forward.
    11/25/2013 | MyNorthwest
  • Easing Into a Grim Topic

    Death planning is a grim topic, but Michael Hebb, a teaching fellow at the University of Washington, is making that conversation easier. He has developed a project called "Death Over Dinner," which helps relatives, friends and even strangers to gather, break bread and talk about matters such as terminal illnesses, loss of a loved one or how they'd like their own death handled.
    11/24/2013 | Barrons
  • Who drives the car - him or her?

    Pepper Schwartz, reported that in nine out of 10 households that identify themselves as "feminist", the man did most of the driving when both partners were in the car.
    11/22/2013 | The Guardian
  • Kennedy's unfinished life

    History gives expression to the time and place in which the historian is writing. It gets rewritten each generation, with the past determined by the present, says Prof. Ken Pyle.
    11/22/2013 | The Daily Herald