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Warmer nights are costing people sleep

Heat disrupts slumber, and people in low-income communities feel it most. A sleep expert explains why and what needs to change.

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Infant brains show capacity to listen amid competing noise

An EEG study provides the first neural evidence that babies have an innate ability to separate speech from background noise.
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A WRAP for biology’s greasiest problem

By mimicking cell membrane environments, new custom designed proteins make water-repelling proteins soluble without detergents.
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Studies trace coordination of rotating brain waves

Researchers examine the origins, destinations and behavioral effects of rotating waves of neural activity in the brain.
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Neuroscientist Astra Bryant named 2026 McKnight Scholar

Bryant studies parasitic roundworms whose heat-sensing abilities enable them to locate hosts to infest.
medical student Chelsea Koessel examining a baby at a Butte, Montana, clinic.

$25 million gift will bolster rural, Indigenous healthcare

Franke family’s endowed donation to UW School of Medicine aims to increase primary-care physicians in the Pacific Northwest.
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