A team led by the 天美影院has developed Smellicopter: an autonomous drone that uses a live antenna from a moth to navigate toward smells. Smellicopter can also sense and avoid obstacles as it travels through the air.
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A team led by researchers at 天美影院Tacoma, 天美影院and Washington State University Puyallup has discovered a chemical that kills coho salmon in urban streams before the fish can spawn.
In this Q&A, 天美影院Information School associate professor Jin Ha Lee discusses how video game and music fandom communities can be “places of light” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
天美影院researchers have developed SoundWatch, a smartwatch app for deaf, Deaf and hard-of-hearing people who want to be aware of nearby sounds.
天美影院researchers have created a sensor system that can ride aboard a small drone or an insect, such as a moth, until it gets to its destination.
天美影院researchers developed a project that scans the streets every few weeks to document how Seattle has reacted to the pandemic and what recovery looks like.
A study by 天美影院researchers found that both mainstream and misinformation news sites displayed similar levels of problematic ads. 天美影院News had a conversation with the team about this research, where ads on news sites come from, and how things might change leading up to the election.
A 天美影院team has received a grant to develop a model that uses local data to generate policy recommendations that could help lower COVID-19 infections in King County.
Researchers at the 天美影院 have developed a tiny wireless steerable camera that can ride aboard an insect or an insect-sized robot.
Using air quality data from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency monitors across the U.S., a UW-led team looked for changes in two common pollutants over the course of 2020.
Researchers from the 天美影院 and 天美影院Medicine, along with volunteers from Microsoft, have developed a new contact-tracing app called CovidSafe.
When the 天美影院announced it was moving its spring quarter 2020 classes entirely online to combat the novel coronavirus, instructors across campus faced a new, uncharted challenge.
天美影院researchers are beginning a national study to help families discover technology that helps them both successfully navigate home-based learning and combat social isolation.
When the first U.S. COVID-19 patient emerged in Washington, 天美影院Medicine, as the state鈥檚 foremost provider of advanced medical care, was thrust into the role of trailblazer. Its clinicians and researchers have since mustered a speedy and sometimes ingenious response.
After surveying smartphone users, 天美影院researchers found that many people misunderstand online status indicators but still carefully shape their behavior to control how they are displayed to others.
天美影院researchers are developing an app that will allow health organizations to monitor coughs from self-quarantined COVID-19 patients from home.
天美影院researchers watched 25 participants scroll through their Facebook or Twitter feeds while, unbeknownst to them, a Google Chrome extension randomly added debunked content on top of some of the real posts.
天美影院researchers are inviting the public to share their experiences on their regular commutes in a survey.
天美影院researchers interviewed 22 athletes and staff members from three college athletics programs to see how collecting data from college athletes might encroach on their autonomy.
天美影院researchers have developed a mathematical model that describes how rotating detonation engines work.
Using 30 years of satellite data, 天美影院researchers discovered that within one year of the opening of a major dam in the Mekong River basin, downstream river temperatures during the dry season dropped by up to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C).
天美影院researchers have created AuraRing, a ring and wristband combination that can detect the precise location of someone’s index finger and continuously track hand movements.
Using a new “non-targeted” approach, 天美影院and 天美影院Tacoma researchers screened samples from multiple regions of Puget Sound to look for potentially harmful compounds that might be present.
天美影院researchers have found that warmer temperatures, at levels expected under most climate change projections, can lead to higher concentrations of arsenic in rice grains.
天美影院researchers have created Carpentry Compiler, a digital tool that allows users to design woodworking projects. Once a project is designed, the tool creates optimized fabrication instructions based on the materials and equipment a user has available.
天美影院researchers have found that air pollution from electricity generation emissions in 2014 led to about 16,000 premature deaths in the continental U.S. In many states, the majority of the health impacts came from emissions originating in other states.
天美影院researchers aimed to understand both the prevalence of discrimination events and how these events affect college students in their daily lives. Over the course of two academic quarters, the team compared students’ self-reports of unfair treatment to passively tracked changes in daily activities, such as hours slept, steps taken or time spent on the phone.
天美影院researchers have found that the third-party genealogy site GEDmatch is vulnerable to multiple kinds of security risks.
天美影院researchers have developed a new smart speaker skill that lets a device use white noise to both soothe sleeping babies and monitor their breathing and movement.
天美影院 transportation researchers looked into why the docked bike-share program Pronto failed while dockless bike sharing has been so successful.
Are you willing to ride in a driverless car? Researchers at the 天美影院 studied how Americans’ perceived cost of commute time changes depending on who’s driving.
天美影院security researchers have created ShareAR, a toolkit that lets developers build collaborative and interactive features into AR apps without sacrificing their users’ privacy and security.
Researchers at the 天美影院have used machine learning to develop a new system that can monitor factory and warehouse workers and tell them how ergonomic their jobs are in real time.
In a pilot study led by the UW, researchers explored art-based mindfulness activities that schools could use to reduce headaches, a common side effect of stress in adolescent girls. After three weeks of twice-weekly mindfulness and art therapy sessions, eight teenage girls reported experiencing significantly fewer headaches.
天美影院researchers created a method for two people help a third person solve a task using only their minds.
天美影院researchers have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they’re asleep 鈥� all without touching them. The tool is essentially an app for a smart speaker or a smartphone that allows it to detect the signature sounds of cardiac arrest and call for help.
天美影院researchers have figured out how to take a person from a 2D photo or a work of art and make them run, walk or jump out of the frame. The system also allows users to view the animation in three dimensions using augmented reality tools.
天美影院 researchers used the paper folding art of origami to develop a novel solution to help reduce the forces associated with impact 鈥� like in car crashes, football helmets, landing spacecraft and more.
天美影院 researchers have defined for the first time what children mean when they say technology is “creepy.”
Researchers at the 天美影院have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of paper and the phone’s microphone and speaker.