Town Hall Seattle Science Series

A conversation about nuclear energy, climate change, and inspiring young women to go into STEM fields.

On December 15, 2022, Grace Stanke, a senior at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, studying …

UW Engage Science sees a future where every graduate student has access to science communication training, and therefore good science communication becomes the norm. The outcome is an increased publi…

On a starry night, nothing inspires such deep wonder as staring into the vastness of space, imagining what curiosities might lie beyond our reach.

This year we have seen several space-related news st…

UW Engage Science sees a future where every graduate student has access to science communication training, and therefore good science communication becomes the norm. The outcome is an increased publi…

Did you know the Puget Sound region is known as a place where people with Dementia are respected, welcomed, and fully belong?

Sandy Sabersky, Co-Founder of Elderwise® and co-author of The Elderwise W…

Standing in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunders…

There’s nothing we spend more time with, but understand less, than ourselves. You’ve been with yourself every waking moment of your life. But who — or, rather, what — are you?

In Selfless, Social psy…

For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unraveling the secrets of bird migration.

How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent — flying thou…

What comes to mind when you think of the Pacific Northwest? You might think of land forms like the Cascade Mountains, Olympic Peninsula, and the Willamette Valley, or of the Coast Salish and other In…

Children are encountering technology at younger and younger ages, which leads many parents to ask: how do children engage with technology at each stage of development and how can they best be support…

Is Seattle having a “Mushroom Moment?’”

As research into the therapeutic use of psychedelics increases, we are learning about how the many findings benefit seniors. This lively and informative panel …

The news about wildlife is dire — more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there are also glimmers of hope and crucial lesso…

Are the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives – as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics – transforming life, society, culture, and politics?

David Auerbach’s exploration of the phe…

For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing without remorse. Then he simply disappeared, for the next forty-four years, until an amateur DNA sleuth op…

While many would think art and science are two vastly different disciplines, one common driver often motivates them both – curiosity.

Ginny Ruffner – who currently has a retrospective exhibition open…

How much does the general public really trust tech? Despite increased scrutiny and critique of digital platforms, renowned tech policy scholar Orly Lobel defends digital technology, including AI, as …

The brain has fascinated scientists and philosophers alike for thousands of years. What’s really going on up there? Just ask neuroscientist, Eric H. Chudler. As the executive director of the Center f…

Have you ever wished that animals or plants could talk to us? As it turns out, they can. The natural world is teeming with conversation, though many of it is beyond human hearing range. Scientists ar…