Science – Page 26 of 69

Allen Institute launches new immunology division with $125M from its late founder

Billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen died two months ago, but before he passed away, he passed along a $125 million commitment… Read More

Bees with backpacks? Gnat-sized systems turn swarms of bugs into sensor networks

Bees with tiny electronic devices on their backs could sound like a researcher’s dream come true, or like a science-fiction… Read More

Can a climate change candidate win in 2020? Washington Gov. Jay Inslee thinks so

“We defeated fascism. We went to the moon. We can beat climate change. I fundamentally believe that.” Speaking like a… Read More

Lift unveils an ultralight aircraft made for fun flights, with Seattle on its radar screen

A startup created by Matt Chasen, the founder of the uShip online shipping marketplace, aims to sell rides on electric-powered… Read More

The team behind Bezos-backed 10,000 Year Clock is looking forward to visitors

With $42 million in funding from Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, the Long Now Foundation can afford to take the long… Read More

‘Bathtubs Over Broadway’ unearths the wacky world of corporate musicals: Where did they go?

No fan of Broadway musicals should miss classics like “I Never Enjoyed My Operation More,” “My Insurance Man” and “My… Read More

Morgan Stanley says market for self-flying cars could rise to $1.5 trillion by 2040

The market for autonomous flying cars — also known as eVTOL aircraft, air taxis or personal air vehicles — could amount… Read More

How climate change choked ancient life to death — and why it could happen again

Scientists say rapidly warming oceans played a key role in the world’s biggest mass extinction, 252 million years ago, and… Read More

AI2 joins forces with Microsoft Research to upgrade search tools for scientific studies

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI2, is partnering with Microsoft Research to widen the sphere of… Read More

National Academies report on quantum computing

Experts say it’s high time to create new cryptography for quantum computing age

A new report from computer scientists estimates that it’s likely to be at least a decade before quantum computing tools… Read More

Tweets document ‘major’ damage after 7.0 Alaska quake rocks Anchorage

Buildings in downtown Anchorage were damaged and roads were ruined when a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Alaska’s biggest city today. The… Read More

A fossil named after Burke Museum curator tells whale of a tale about evolution

A whale that lived 33 million years ago when present-day Oregon was part of the ocean floor has been newly… Read More

GM shifts its president, Dan Ammann, to the CEO position at Cruise Automation

General Motors has shuffled its executive team to put its president, Dan Ammann, into the CEO spot at its autonomous-vehicle… Read More

Human gene-editing experiment is put on hold in China amid international furor

The Chinese researcher behind a controversial experiment to produce gene-edited children took the stage at a Hong Kong conference to… Read More

Investigation of Lion Air 737 crash focuses on faulty sensor: Why wasn’t it fixed?

Right from the start of last month’s fatal flight of a Lion Air 737 MAX jet from Indonesia, pilots were… Read More

Airbus and Audi demonstrate mini-me version of flying car at Amsterdam show

A flying car developed by Airbus, Audi and Italdesign took a high-profile test flight today at the Amsterdam Drone Week… Read More

Reports about gene-edited babies give birth to investigations in China and U.S.

Multiple investigations are being sought in the wake of reports that a Chinese laboratory facilitated the birth of twin girls… Read More

Bill Gates: Why renewable energy is not enough to solve climate change

Renewable energy is getting cheaper and more efficient. Environmentalists, like Bill Gates, celebrate that as progress toward reducing our reliance… Read More

Chinese scientist says first gene-edited babies have been born in effort to fight HIV

A Chinese researcher says his lab facilitated the first birth of gene-edited children — twin girls who are said to possess… Read More

White House issues grim Black Friday outlook for wildfires and more climate woe

If current climate trends continue, the Pacific Northwest will have more summer wildfires, less winter snowpack and smaller numbers of… Read More

Boeing and SparkCognition launch SkyGrid venture to build software for air mobility

Four months after announcing that they were linking up to create a traffic management system for drones, Boeing and SparkCognition… Read More

GM’s Cruise Automation self-driving car venture plans Seattle office with up to 200 engineers

Cruise Automation, General Motors’ autonomous-vehicle subsidiary, says it’s getting ready to open up an office in the Seattle area that… Read More

Elon Musk celebrates Boring Company’s big breakthrough at end of test tunnel

The Boring Company’s “cutting-edge technology” got a shout-out from billionaire founder Elon Musk tonight after the venture’s tunneling machine, nicknamed… Read More

Boeing subsidiary says its solar-powered Odysseus drone will fly high in 2019

Aurora Flight Sciences, a pioneer in experimental flying vehicles that became a Boeing subsidiary last year, says its solar-powered, high-altitude,… Read More

Census shows that U.S.-Russian polar bear population is stable … at least for now

The first census of polar bears living around the Chukchi Sea, straddling Alaska and eastern Siberia, suggests that the population… Read More

What did pilots know about 737 MAX control issue? Debate swirls after crash

What did 737 MAX pilots know, and when did they know it? That’s become a subject of debate in the… Read More

Jeff Bezos unveils Amazon Prime Air’s flying tribute to veterans: Valor

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is big on veterans, and in honor of Veterans Day, he presided over the vet-friendly christening… Read More

American Heart Association and Allen Institute select teams for brain campaign

Medical researchers know all about the blood-brain barrier, but Seattle’s Allen Institute and the American Heart Association have selected three… Read More

FBI says Horizon Air plane thief Richard Russell acted alone, crashed intentionally

After a three-month investigation, the FBI has concluded that Horizon Air employee Richard Russell acted alone when he crept into… Read More

Scientists design protein filaments that snap themselves together like Lego blocks

Researchers have created molecular building blocks that can weave themselves into long threads of protein. Well, maybe not all that… Read More