Science – Page 22 of 69

Institute for Protein Design wins $45M in funding from TED’s Audacious Project

The era of engineering proteins for medical applications just got a lot closer, thanks to a five-year, $45 million grant… Read More

Nonlinear Materials goes public with plan to commercialize electro-optic devices

It’s taken 20 years, but executives at Seattle-based Nonlinear Materials Corp. are finally putting the pieces in place for what… Read More

Donald Trump, whose airline fizzled out, gives 737 MAX marketing advice to Boeing

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22737%20maga%22&src=typed_query In addition to praising Tiger Woods and pillorying Democrats, President Donald Trump had some words of advice on Twitter… Read More

Bill Gates channels inner ‘Star Trek’ geek to riff on shapeshifters for Mosquito Week

It’s Mosquito Week at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a time to focus on the global campaign to eradicate… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Science fiction literature, biases in AI, and helping businesses go global

— “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” That statement seems eerily on point for what’s… Read More

Vote for AI Innovation of the Year: Seattle’s artificial intelligence clout featured at the GeekWire Awards

Artificial intelligence is one of the Seattle area’s fastest-growing tech frontiers, so it only makes sense for the field to… Read More

Full findings from NASA ‘Twins Study’ raise more questions about long stints in space

Ten research teams today shared comprehensive scientific results from an unprecedented experiment to gauge the health differences that developed between… Read More

OceanGate gears up for deep-sea dives with a crew that’ll pay for the privilege

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate is heading back down to the Bahamas next week to practice deep-sea dives of Titanic proportions with… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrating the first man in space and exploring underwater artifacts

More than 60 years ago, the world got serious about exploring space. The global fascination with the great beyond led… Read More

Boeing will cut back temporarily on 737 MAX production and review design process

Boeing will reduce its monthly production rate for its single-aisle 737 jets from 52 to 42, starting in mid-April, CEO… Read More

Boeing vows to take all necessary safety steps after Ethiopia issues preliminary 737 MAX crash report

Boeing executives said today that they would take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of the company’s 737 MAX… Read More

Ethiopian jet’s data record deepens concern about 737 MAX safety procedures

Readings from the recorders recovered from last month’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX jet reportedly suggest that… Read More

Why that amazing April Fools’ video of an Amazon blimp got taken way too seriously

A video clip showing a drone-dispatching airship emblazoned with the Amazon logo is a powerful contender for April Fool’s joke… Read More

Planetary Resources’ veteran engineers launch First Mode to target wider frontiers

Planetary Resources was assimilated into the ConsenSys blockchain venture months ago, but a troop of engineers who used to work… Read More

Eyebrow-raising extinction study goes public, but co-author says it’s just the start

After days of puzzling over secondhand reports, anyone with an internet connection can now read a research paper about a… Read More

Scientists claim discovery of a fossilized killing field from the day the dinosaurs died

First, there was a violent shock. Then, there was the roar of a 30-foot-high wave of water, throwing fish onto… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Black Girls Code workshops, Pluto’s planetary debate, FFA’s Champion Awards, and more

— Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching girls of color ages 7-17 about computer programming and technology, is… Read More

Boston Dynamics’ robotic ostrich can ‘handle’ warehouse box-stacking tasks

Boston Dynamics’ latest robo-creature may be cuter than its creepy robot dogs, but its potential application could nevertheless make warehouse… Read More

Bill Gates casts an enthusiastic vote for bill to accelerate nuclear energy research

If dollars were votes, newly reintroduced legislation aimed at boosting nuclear energy innovation and advanced reactors would be a winner,… Read More

Turing Award honors a different kind of AI network with ‘Nobel Prize of computing’

The three recipients of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2018 Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” are… Read More

Lumotive's William Colleran and Gleb Akselrod

How Lumotive will put metamaterials in self-driving cars, with Bill Gates’ backing

BELLEVUE, Wash. — A succession of spinouts supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken an unorthodox technology known as… Read More

Hearings on Boeing 737 MAX crashes focus on certification and pilot training

Were airline pilots adequately trained on a catastrophic scenario involving the automatic flight control system for Boeing’s 737 MAX airplanes?… Read More

LIGO and Virgo detectors get in sync for gravitational-wave hunt that’ll last a year

Physicists won’t be fooling around on April 1 at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Washington state and Louisiana, or… Read More

Boeing-backed GoFly Prize puts 5 personal flying machines in spotlight, with fly-off ahead

Five teams from around the world have risen to new heights in the GoFly Prize competition, a $2 million-plus contest… Read More

MagniX and Vancouver’s Harbour Air team up to test all-electric plane for B.C. flights

Two Pacific Northwest companies — MagniX, an electric propulsion venture headquartered in Redmond, Wash.; and Harbour Air Seaplanes, an airline… Read More

Microsoft will be adding AI ethics to its standard checklist for product release

Microsoft will “one day very soon” add an ethics review focusing on artificial-intelligence issues to its standard checklist of audits… Read More

Report: Optional safety features for Boeing 737 MAX jets will be offered for free

Two optional safety features that might help pilots head off a scenario that’s at the heart of investigations into two… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Jobs in space; a critical look at Facebook; women executives and pay equity

Space has always fascinated us geeks. Thanks to Star Wars, Star Trek and countless other science fiction media, gazing at… Read More

Report: Indonesia’s Garuda airline seeks to cancel 737 MAX order in wake of crashes

Indonesia’s national airline, Garuda Indonesia, is saying it wants to cancel an order for 49 Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets,… Read More

Microsoft and University of Washington demonstrate automated DNA data storage

DNA data storage holds the promise of putting huge amounts of information into a test tube — but who wants… Read More