GeekWire
Menu
  • Home
  • News
    • Amazon
    • Civic presented by Microsoft
    • Geek Life presented by Network of Giving
    • Health/Life Sciences
    • Microsoft
    • Podcasts
    • Space
    • Startups
    • Sustainability
    • Tech Moves
    • Bot or Not
    • GeekWire on the Road: Spokane
    • Microsoft at 50 presented by Accenture
    • Tech Vets presented by Northern Trust
  • GeekWork
    • GeekWork Recruiting
    • Job Board
  • Events
    • Community Calendar
    • GeekWire Events
  • Lists
    • Amazon Office Buildings
    • GeekWire 200 presented by JPMorganChase
    • GeekWire Startup List
    • GeekWire Startup Resources
    • GeekWire Startup Spaces
    • Layoff Tracker
    • M&As and IPOs
    • Northwest Women VC & Angel Investor List
    • Recent Fundings
    • Seattle Engineering Outposts
    • Venture Capital Directory
  • Members
    • Health Benefits
    • Memberships
  • Studios
    • GeekWire Studios: Let Us Tell Your Story
    • Nebius at NVIDIA GTC 2025 sponsored by Nebius
    • AWS Marketplace Seller Conference 2024 sponsored by AWS
    • AWS Summit: New York Partner Spotlights sponsored by AWS
    • Does Compute presented by Carnegie Mellon University
    • Guide to re:Invent sponsored by AWS
    • Money Hacks presented by BECU
    • Tech Connect at Dreamforce 2024 sponsored by RSM US LLP
    • Uncommon Thinkers Welcome sponsored by Greater Seattle Partners
    • Zuper at Inbound sponsored by Zuper
  • About
    • About GeekWire
    • Advertise
    • Contact Us
    • Email Newsletters
    • Reprints & Permissions
    • Sponsors
  • Podcast
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletter
  • News Tips

What Happens Here Matters Everywhere.

  • Podcast
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletter
  • News Tips
  • Amazon
  • Microsoft
  • Startups
  • AI
  • Science
  • Tech Moves
  • Sustainability
  • Civic
  • Geek Life

Science

Stories about scientific discoveries, education, research, and more.

Univ. of Washington researchers use origami folds to control descent of tiny robotic microfliers

Tiny robots developed at the University of Washington might look like leaves that could have fallen from a tree, but… Read More

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"

Indiana Jones and the Last Movie: Why archaeologists say he’s ancient history

As the world’s best-known fictional archaeologist goes after what may be his last ancient mystery in “Indiana Jones and the… Read More

Ships at Titan sub search site, seen in June 22 satellite image

Coast Guard takes charge of the Titan sub investigation and debris recovery effort

The U.S. Coast Guard says it plans to recover debris from OceanGate’s Titan submersible, which was lost along with its… Read More

Titan sub being tested

Now what? OceanGate sub tragedy sets off a torrent of questions without answers

It’s too soon to answer all the questions raised by this week’s loss of OceanGate’s Titan submersible and its five-person… Read More

University of Washington team detects atomic ‘breathing’ for quantum computing breakthrough

Most of us don’t think of atoms as having their own unique vibrations, but they do. In fact, it’s a… Read More

Seattle tech vets bring India’s renowned Farzi Café to U.S. with new Bellevue restaurant

Two veterans of the Seattle area’s tech industry have opened an Indian restaurant with Michelin-recognized roots in downtown Bellevue, Wash.… Read More

Aerial view of Titan submersible search site

Search team confirms hearing ‘banging’ noises at sea but haven’t found Titanic sub

Searchers are continuing to hear what they describe as “banging” noises as they monitor underwater sounds for signs of an… Read More

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush chats with GeekWire's Alan Boyle during a 2019 dive in the company's Cyclops submersible.

Here’s what it’s like to steer an OceanGate submersible … no, not the missing sub

The Titan submersible that has gone missing near the wreck of the Titanic isn’t the only sub in OceanGate’s fleet:… Read More

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush with Titan submersible during construction

Search for OceanGate’s missing Titanic sub widens; crew’s names come to light

The search for an OceanGate submersible that went out of contact during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic… Read More

OceanGate Titan submersible

OceanGate loses contact with submersible during dive to Titanic; search is underway

OceanGate’s Titan submersible has gone out of contact during one of its dives to the wreck of the Titanic, 12,500… Read More

LIGO beam calibration

LIGO starts its fourth round of searching for gravitational waves and black holes

After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has… Read More

Human IPS cells imaged by spinning-disk confocal microscope.

Allen Institute takes on a supporting role in experiment to grow stem cells in space

Space: The final frontier … for stem cells? Seattle’s Allen Institute for Cell Science says cells from its collection are… Read More

Polar Prince at sea

Icebergs ahead? OceanGate plans to get an early start on this year’s Titanic dives

OceanGate Expeditions, which has conducted dives to the site of the Titanic shipwreck in 2021 and 2022, says it will… Read More

Bill to designate official Washington state dinosaur moves step closer thanks to ancient leg bone

Lawmakers pondering the relevance of a dinosaur leg bone moved a step closer to designating the unique find as Washington… Read More

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania / Quantum

Get a reality check on quantum computing vs. ‘Quantumania’ in Marvel’s latest movie

Ant-Man may be getting small in Marvel’s latest superhero movie — but in the real world, quantum is getting big.… Read More

Titanic's bow, seen during OceanGate dive

OceanGate provides a guided video tour of Titanic shipwreck — and gets set to return

The latest film about the Titanic doesn’t show Leonardo DiCaprio standing up on the bow’s railings — instead, a single… Read More

Illustration: Man with virtual world in hand

Sci-fi author and scientist team up to write a novel about consciousness and quantum weirdness

Do we each create our own reality? Could different observers create measurably different realities? It’s a fantastical line of thought… Read More

Apatosaurus dinosaur illustration

Scientists tangle over a Jurassic mystery: Could the tail of a dinosaur go supersonic?

The dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus could certainly do a lot of damage with its long tail — but just… Read More

Startup partners with AI2 to help people access information in research studies

A new startup, Consensus, is partnering with the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) to help make the information in… Read More

Inside the Univ. of Washington’s new greenhouse, where a tech upgrade keeps the 6,000 plants happy

Exposure to plants and nature is said to make humans calmer and more productive, and just feel better overall. That… Read More

Deep-sea life near Titanic

OceanGate explorers solve a 26-year-old mystery and document life near the Titanic

During an expedition to the Titanic back in 1996, submersible pilot PH Nargeolet noticed a curious sonar blip that was… Read More

Neal Stephenson

Decades after creating a sci-fi metaverse, Neal Stephenson works on making it real

Microsoft and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, have their own visions for a virtual world called the metaverse — but an… Read More

Beyond the Titanic: OceanGate’s founder contemplates future deep-sea frontiers

When it comes to undersea adventures, can anything match seeing the 110-year-old wreck of the Titanic with your own eyes?… Read More

Octopus seen during Ocean Observatories Initiative's Vision '13 expedition

What octopus intelligence can teach us about artificial intelligence — and aliens

Are intelligent aliens living among us? A newly published novel just might lead you to think so — and in… Read More

Titanic anchor

OceanGate’s high-def 8K video of Titanic wreck reveals previously unseen details

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate Expeditions set a new standard this year for documenting the condition of the 110-year-old wreck of the… Read More

Membrane-permeable peptides

Sneaky synthetic molecules open the way for new types of drugs and a new startup

Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered how to create peptide molecules that can slip through membranes to enter… Read More

Titanic's bow in 2021 and 2022

OceanGate’s explorers update their view of a tattered Titanic ⁠and the life around it

After his second yearly series of dives to the Titanic, the CEO and founder of Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says the… Read More

Tsunami advice triggers quake confusion: Stop, drop and cover or head for the hills?

News this week that a big earthquake in Seattle could trigger destructive tsunami waves that would hit some shorelines in… Read More

Illustration showing pi and pie

Google developers set another record for calculating digits of pi: 100 trillion!

Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google set the world record for calculating… Read More

Titanic bow

OceanGate ramps up the research for its second deep-sea expedition to the Titanic

One year after OceanGate’s first expedition to the Titanic shipwreck, the Everett, Wash.-based company is gearing up for its second… Read More

  • Older
  • Newer
  • Latest Stories
  • Startup sold to big tech giant

  • Microsoft grapples with another security breach: The latest on the SharePoint attacks

  • Tech investors on why AI makes this a great moment for startups — with one caveat

  • New head of Alliance of Angels excited to hit ‘refresh’ on longtime startup investment group

  • End of an era: Microsoft to shut down Skype, shifting users to Teams, 14 years after $8.5B deal

  • Amazon commits $100M to Bellevue to ‘accelerate’ production of affordable housing

  • Redfin CEO addresses ‘painful’ restructuring; stock dips 11% after Q4 earnings miss expectations 

  • Allen Family Foundation awards $5M to support and study six nature-based carbon removal projects

  • Tech Moves: UW professor wins prestigious honor; T-Mobile board shuffle; and more

  • Nautilus CEO needs investor patience in pursuit of ‘incredibly ambitious’ biotech product

  • Automating ‘science of war’: Exia Labs raises $2.5M to build AI for military operations

  • Microsoft asks Trump to loosen chip export limits to avoid giving China an AI advantage

  • Jeff Bezos’ fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, will lead female crew on Blue Origin’s next space trip

  • Kestra Medical Technologies aims to raise $150M in IPO

  • Starbucks layoffs impact more than 600 workers in Washington state

  • GeekWire 200 CEO survey: Tech startup leaders on the economy, RTO, AI, and key priorities for 2025

  • Nautilus Biotechnology lays off 16% of workforce, plans release of commercial platform in 2026

  • Amazon’s new quantum chip joins race to enable next era of computing

  • Amazon Web Services focuses on optimizing artificial intelligence in space

  • Inspectify acquires Aloft in Seattle real estate startup deal

GeekWire Newsletters

Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline

Send Us a Tip

Have a scoop that you'd like GeekWire to cover? Let us know.

Send Us a Tip

Job Listings on GeekWorkSee More

Find more jobs on GeekWork. Employers, post a job here.

GeekWire Podcast

See MoreStartup Resources

For more helpful startup resources, see the GeekWire Service Provider Directory.
enova-labs
Consulting | Software Development | Web Development
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati
Legal Services

See MoreSeattle Engineering Centers

Track companies with engineering centers in the Seattle region
ByteDance
Software
Pryon
Artificial Intelligence

A Word From Our Sponsors

About

  • About GeekWire
  • Contact Us
  • Partner With Us
  • Become a GeekWire Member
  • Send Us a Tip
  • Join Our Startup List
  • Reprints and Permissions

Follow

  • Facebook
  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • RSS Feed
  • Podcast
  • YouTube
  • Bluesky

GeekWire Newsletters

Catch every headline in your inbox

Read GeekWire

  • Apple News
  • Google News

Legal

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Sponsored Content Policy
Return to Top of Page
© 2011-2025 GeekWire, LLC
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal information
Limit the Use Of My Sensitive Personal Information
Consent Preferences