Science – Page 39 of 69

Irish prime minister makes the tech rounds in Seattle and calls for more business ties

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar touted the connections between his country and Seattle tech heavyweights such as Amazon and Microsoft… Read More

UW scientists can weave digital passwords and IDs into the threads of your clothing

Want to wear your password on your sleeve? Computer scientists from the University of Washington can make it so. A… Read More

Watch: Huge great white shark bites underwater camera used in Paul Allen’s FinPrint project

A camera positioned underwater near the Kermadec Islands, north of New Zealand, with the goal of capturing footage of sharks… Read More

They’re alive! Allen Institute harvests data from bits of living human brain tissue

Zapping brain cells from living human tissue? It sounds like a creepy Halloween tale, but for the Allen Institute for… Read More

Boeing’s robotic and human workers join up to start production of 777X jets

EVERETT, Wash. — With the rat-a-tat-tat of a robotic riveter, Boeing celebrated the official kickoff for production of its next-generation 777X… Read More

Simulations show how major 9.0 earthquake could impact Northwest — and what Seattle should fear

“None of the pictures is rosy,” says a line in a new report from the University of Washington detailing a… Read More

Gourmet tech: Nathan Myhrvold’s ‘Modernist Bread’ finds new twists in one of the oldest foods

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Did you ever try inflating bread dough with a bicycle pump? Gourmet technologist Nathan Myhrvold did — and after thumbing… Read More

Satellite readings track how climate change is thinning out mountain glaciers

Elevation readings captured by satellites confirm that glaciers in the western United States are fading away at a worrisome rate.… Read More

Elon Musk’s Boring Company digs into a plan for tunnel from Baltimore to D.C.

One of billionaire Elon Musk’s lesser-known ventures is taking the spotlight with word that The Boring Company is planning to… Read More

Boeing HorizonX invests in Near Earth Autonomy, boosting self-flying tech

Boeing’s venture capital arm, Boeing HorizonX, says it has made a substantial investment in Near Earth Autonomy, a Pittsburgh-based startup… Read More

Mohawk tribe sues Amazon and Microsoft in complicated supercomputer patent spat

A Native American tribe and a small computer company have reportedly sued Amazon and Microsoft, claiming that they’re infringing on… Read More

UW spinout WiBotic unveils its PowerPad wireless charging system for drones

Seattle-based WiBotic today took the wraps off an integrated wireless charging pad for drones, as well as an onboard charger… Read More

Amazon patents a method for identity authentication that uses music as the key

Amazon’s inventors have come up with a computer-based system that makes use musical transformations to authenticate a whole group of… Read More

AI2 scales up Semantic Scholar search engine to encompass biomedical research

The inspiration for the latest extension of the Semantic Scholar search engine, adding tens of millions of biomedical studies, may… Read More

Airbus partners with Canada’s Bombardier, complicating trade dispute over Boeing jets

Airbus added a twist to a U.S.-Canada trade dispute by announcing a plan to partner up with Bombardier, the Boeing… Read More

NASA’s carbon-monitoring OCO-2 satellite confirms that El Nino weather boosts CO2

Readings from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 have confirmed that the El Niño weather pattern of 2015-2016 was behind the biggest… Read More

Will AI create a new god for us? Sounds like the plot of a Dan Brown thriller

Imagine an age when artificial intelligence takes the sum of human experience and turns it into a “global consciousness” that… Read More

Virgin adds its investment (and its brand name) to Hyperloop One transit venture

British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has invested in the Hyperloop One rapid-transit venture, which will soon be rebranded as… Read More

B.S. for Ph.D.s: Not even science is immune from the fake-news epidemic

The controversy over fake news may focus on politics, but it’s also slipping into the scientific realm, says one of… Read More

Brain scientist Christof Koch maps out a path to merge humans and machines

It may sound like a zombie movie, but Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is studying fresh human brain tissue… Read More

Future battles against cancer will expand tech frontiers, Fred Hutch’s chief says

The fight against cancer isn’t just about drugs and genetics. It’s also about wearable devices, health-savvy chatbots, machine learning and… Read More

Elon Musk’s tweets about a solar rescue plan spark interest from Puerto Rico

A Twitter conversation about beefing up Puerto Rico’s hurricane-hit power grid with solar power and heavy-duty batteries is turning into… Read More

Entrepreneurs swarm to get in on the idea factories at Intellectual Ventures and AI2

Less than two months after Intellectual Ventures and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence put out the call for entrepreneurs,… Read More

Boeing plans to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences in bid to boost autonomous flight

Boeing says it has struck a deal to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences, a leader in the field of autonomous flight,… Read More

Zunum unveils its electric airplane design for 2022 – and adds to its team in Chicago

Zunum Aero is fleshing out its plan to build an electric-powered airplane that could be delivered to airlines as early… Read More

Boeing wins seven more contracts for its growing data analytics business

Seven more companies have joined the list of customers for data analytics services from Boeing AnalytX, bringing the total of… Read More

News Brief

Chilled-down views of biomolecules win chemistry Nobel Prize for international trio

This year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry recognizes the invention of cryo-electron microscopy, a method for chilling down biomolecules to produce… Read More

No-surprise Nobel: LIGO physicists win prize for gravitational wave discoveries

This year’s Nobel Prize for physics is going, unsurprisingly, to three people who represent the hundreds of researchers behind the first… Read More

UW alumnus shares medicine Nobel Prize for research into biological clocks

The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine was awarded today for research into biological clocks that was conducted by three… Read More

Seattle researchers make science history by encoding Miles Davis, Deep Purple songs onto DNA

In a first for science, researchers from the University of Washington, Microsoft and Twist Bioscience have stored archival-quality recordings of… Read More