Science – Page 19 of 69

Black hole portrait wins Breakthrough Prize for Event Horizon Telescope’s team

What’s $3 million divided by 347? That’s the math problem to be solved by the physicists on the Event Horizon… Read More

Allen Institute’s Aristo AI system finally passes an eighth-grade science test

Four years after the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen challenged researchers to come up with an artificial intelligence program smart… Read More

How I unwittingly steered OceanGate’s sub to discovery in Puget Sound’s depths

POSSESSION SOUND, Wash. — Steering a five-person submersible is like playing a video game, except for the fact that you’re… Read More

Boeing HorizonX adds to its investment in Morf3D additive manufacturing venture

Boeing’s venture capital arm has added to its investment in Morf3D, a California startup that focuses of aerospace applications for… Read More

Billionaires Jack Ma and Elon Musk debate good, evil and AI at conference in China

In the debate over artificial intelligence, whose side is Elon Musk on? Musk, who’s in charge of SpaceX, Tesla and… Read More

Watch tsunami waves from a 9.0 earthquake hit the Pacific Northwest in new simulation videos

A magnitude 9.0 earthquake could certainly qualify as the much-feared “big one” in Washington state. New simulation videos from the… Read More

Bell shows off an autonomous delivery drone that rivals Amazon’s prototype

When it comes to self-flying drones capable of delivering packages, Amazon isn’t the only game in town. Today Bell reported… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft and other titans face scrutiny in report about killer-robot tech

Dutch activists are voicing concerns about technologies that could open the way for lethal autonomous weapons – such as AI… Read More

Why Big Data is a bigger deal than venture capital in the artificial intelligence game

“Data is the new oil” may be a classic cliche characterizing how important raw numbers are for the computer industry,… Read More

How Jay Inslee moved the ball on the climate issue in presidential bid, and why he fell short of the goal

Jay Inslee may be out of the presidential race, but he’s not out of the minds of climate policy campaigners.… Read More

Researchers watch Titanic wreck crumble, one year before OceanGate’s planned dives

Scientists and enthusiasts are due to visit the wreck of the Titanic next summer in a submersible built by Everett,… Read More

Neuroscientists publish a ‘parts list’ for the brain, detailing differences between mice and humans

A study led by researchers at Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science lays out a “parts list” for the brain,… Read More

USGS awards $10.4M for ShakeAlert quake warning system in the Pacific Northwest

The U.S. Geological Survey is setting aside $10.4 million over the next two years to boost the ShakeAlert earthquake early-warning… Read More

Battery startup Group14 Technologies raises $14M to make materials for electric cars

A 3-year-old Seattle-area startup is raising cash to develop materials that improve batteries in electric vehicles. A new SEC filing… Read More

Inside the lab where Bill Gates’ TerraPower is inventing the future of nuclear energy

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Just a stone’s throw away from Interstate 90’s crush of traffic, a decade-old startup founded by Bill… Read More

Archaeological dig in Jerusalem unearths evidence of biblical Babylonian conquest

One month after offering up archaeological evidence to back up a contested claim about the First Crusade, researchers say they’ve… Read More

Paul Allen’s Petrel project wins spotlight in TV show about Pacific War shipwrecks

The voyages of the R/V Petrel, funded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, are the focus of a National… Read More

Five big ideas from Nathan Myhrvold, the original ‘mad scientist’ from Microsoft

Do a search on “Nathan Myhrvold” and “mad scientist,” and you’ll get nearly 2,000 hits, including profiles from the likes… Read More

Amazon wins patent for spoilage-sniffing refrigerator … but don’t hold your breath

Years after making its application, Amazon has won a patent for a refrigerator that uses cameras and chemical sensors to… Read More

Amazon lays out a technology to guide delivery agents with augmented reality

Efficient package delivery is one of the keystones of Amazon’s retailing business, and a newly issued patent opens up a… Read More

Amazon seeks FCC’s go-ahead to test mobile broadband devices in Silicon Valley

Amazon is seeking the Federal Communications Commission’s approval for a six-month test of mobile radio devices and networking software –… Read More

Backed by Bill Gates, Echodyne plays role in a pioneering flight of a drone on its own

A public-private consortium led by the University of Alaska has conducted the first-ever federally authorized test flight of a drone… Read More

Aviation geeks will be seeing some new twists when the Blue Angels soar at Seafair

The sights and sounds of the Blue Angels flying their aerobatic fighter jets through August skies are a Seattle tradition… Read More

In pursuit of air mobility, Voom’s Seattle office blazes a trail for working remotely

Add the Airbus subsidiary Voom to the list of tech startups with engineering centers in the Seattle area — and… Read More

Neuroscientists fine-tune brain-to-speech translator – but there’s a long road ahead

Neuroscientists have demonstrated a computerized system that can determine in real time what’s being said, based on brain activity rather… Read More

Amid a rapid rise in AI resource needs, AI2 campaigns to make it easier to be green

The development of ever more powerful models for artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the world, but it doesn’t come cheap. In… Read More

Go swim with the sharks in this 10-hour YouTube video from Paul Allen’s Global FinPrint survey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqErSOEjHe4&feature=youtu.be So this is what it would look like if you crammed Shark Week into one extended YouTube video. If… Read More

FAA puts new drone management system in play and eases flight restrictions

Good news for law-abiding drone operators: The Federal Aviation Administration is expanding its automated online system for authorizing recreational flights… Read More

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence hatches a new HQ for its startup incubator

The startup incubator at Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is getting so busy that it has to move into… Read More

German team registers the top speed (again) in Elon Musk’s Hyperloop pod race

The name may have changed, but the result is the same: For the fourth time in a row, a German… Read More