Science – Page 13 of 69

Coronavirus sleuth outlines his ‘Apollo program’ for bringing down the pandemic

A Seattle epidemiologist who warned about the threat posed by novel coronavirus when it was a novelty now says he… Read More

Tableau co-founder and former Pixar president win prestigious Turing Award for groundbreaking work in 3D computer graphics

Patrick Hanrahan, a Stanford University professor best known in Seattle tech as the co-founder of Tableau Software, was awarded the… Read More

UW Medicine opens drive-through coronavirus testing station for patients … by appointment only

UW Medicine patients are getting checked for coronavirus at a drive-through station set up in a hospital clinic’s parking lot.… Read More

Washington state works with the Pentagon to prepare for a wave of coronavirus cases

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says state officials are making joint preparations with the Defense Department to get more hospital beds… Read More

Passenger traffic drops by two-thirds at Sea-Tac due to coronavirus; aid sought

The number of airline passengers taking off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has fallen by two-thirds, due to the coronavirus outbreak… Read More

Seattle techies get the first shots in Kaiser Permanente’s coronavirus vaccine trial

Seattle’s tech community is well-represented in the first group of participants to get their shots in the first U.S. clinical… Read More

AI2 and Microsoft join the White House’s push to enlist AI for the war on coronavirus

A consortium of tech leaders — including Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s charity… Read More

Scientists find that up to 86 percent of coronavirus infections go undetected

Computer modeling of the coronavirus outbreak’s course in China, in the weeks before a travel shutdown was imposed on Jan.… Read More

Officials promise rollout of coronavirus test sites – but warn that there’ll be bottlenecks

Federal public health officials say they’ll start setting up an expanded system of coronavirus test centers this week, but acknowledge… Read More

President Donald Trump tests negative for coronavirus after a week of controversy

President Donald Trump famously downplayed the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak at first, but now he’s been tested to see… Read More

Trump says he’s considering restrictions on domestic travel from coronavirus hotspots

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, restrictions on European travel will be extended to Britain and Ireland on Monday –… Read More

Coronavirus test system will rely on online screening and parking-lot sampling sites

The Trump administration says it will set up a nationwide screening and testing system for coronavirus that relies upon online… Read More

A dozen national science advisers ask publishers to make all coronavirus research available for AI

Science advisers for the White House and 11 other national governments are asking publishers around the world to provide free… Read More

Drive-through coronavirus testing station

Researcher says more coronavirus testing will help manage outbreak, but travel bans? Not so much

A fresh analysis of the numbers behind the coronavirus outbreak suggests that it’s reached the point where more intensive testing… Read More

Report: Amazon and Gates Foundation aim to team up with scientists on home test kits for coronavirus

Amazon Care is offering assistance to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a plan to deliver coronavirus test kits… Read More

White House seeks the aid of tech titans to combat coronavirus and misinformation

The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and other federal agencies today met with Amazon, Microsoft and other… Read More

Coronavirus sleuths say they still see a ‘path forward’ after regulatory snag

Regulators have blocked the Seattle Flu Study’s guerrilla effort to trace the spread of novel coronavirus, citing ethical concerns, but… Read More

How to cope with Seattle’s coronavirus outbreak? Pretend that you’re snowed in

Fresh projections suggest that 1,100 people in Washington state have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and that the outbreak… Read More

Gates-backed Kymeta unveils next-gen satellite antenna for hybrid connectivity

Kymeta Corp., one of the high-tech ventures backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has paired its next-generation satellite antenna with… Read More

Hospital’s drive-through coronavirus tests could be a model for Seattle and the world

A drive-through coronavirus testing site set up at a University of Washington hospital could serve as the model for more… Read More

Verizon teams up with Pacific Northwest National Lab to develop 5G broadband applications

Verizon says it’s bringing its 5G ultra wideband wireless network to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., and will… Read More

Q&A: ‘Cosmos’ author Ann Druyan muses about possible worlds — and what Carl Sagan would do

How many dimensions does the cosmos have? If we’re talking about string theory, it could be 10, or 11, or… Read More

Study says travel restrictions can delay, but can’t defeat a global coronavirus outbreak

Comparisons of the real-world spread of the COV-19 coronavirus with computer models indicate that the travel restrictions imposed by authorities… Read More

UW Medicine says it has extra capacity for coronavirus tests; bottlenecks may lie elsewhere

The University of Washington School of Medicine says its virology lab is now capable of performing 1,000 genetic tests for… Read More

Washington Gov. Inslee cuts coronavirus costs — and meets with VP Mike Pence

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and other state officials say they’re acting to reduce medical costs for people who have to… Read More

A protein found in scorpion venom just might help take the sting out of arthritis

Scientists at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified a mini-protein in scorpion venom that can target joint inflammation… Read More

Health officials advise people to work at home, postpone gatherings to slow spread of coronavirus

As the coronavirus epidemic widens, public health officials in Seattle-King County are recommending that people work at home if possible… Read More

UW Medicine ramps up new coronavirus lab test; Gates Foundation pledges $5M for detection

The University of Washington School of Medicine is moving forward with a new clinical lab test for the COVID-19 coronavirus,… Read More

XR experts see health care as the killer app for VR, AR, MR … or whatever you call it

Virtual reality? Augmented reality? Mixed reality? Today at a Seattle symposium, experts settled on extended reality, or XR, as the… Read More

Boeing unveils proposed design for U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft

Boeing has taken the wraps off its closely held design for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, a new type of… Read More