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Seat 14C illustration

‘Seat 14C’ short stories imagine a 20-year time warp – and now you can hop on board

Imagine you’re a passenger on a jet that mysteriously time warps to the year 2037: That’s what a team of… Read More

Low Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft

NASA gives OK for design of super-quiet supersonic experimental airplane

NASA says it’s cleared a significant milestone on the path to reviving supersonic passenger jet travel in the U.S. with… Read More

SparkPredict application

Boeing’s HorizonX joins $32.5M funding round for SparkCognition AI venture

Boeing’s recently established venture arm, HorizonX, has joined with other investors in a $32.5 million funding round for SparkCognition, a… Read More

Drone inspecting wind turbines

Clobotics raises $5M and opens office in Seattle area for drone data monitoring

Small drones, big data and computer vision: That’s the tech-frontier trifecta for Clobotics, a Shanghai startup that says it’s raised… Read More

Multi-level fulfillment center

Amazon’s delivery drone hive looks like it came from a sci-fi movie nightmare

If filmmakers ever decide to do a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” with drones instead of birds, they could… Read More

Academic search engines

Microsoft, Google and Baidu team up with Paul Allen’s AI2 on Open Academic Search

Microsoft, Google and Baidu may be competitors in the business world, but when it comes to open-access academic resources, they’re… Read More

Sunset adds a Seattle spin to tonight’s solstice and the scientific start of summer

Tonight marks the summer solstice, which means Seattleites and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere are saying farewell to spring… Read More

Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein in "Genius"

Albert Einstein’s life story teaches lessons that go beyond science class in ‘Genius’

Don’t expect to hear a lot about relativity in the final chapter of Albert Einstein’s life story, as told tonight… Read More

Boeing 777 production

20-year view: Boeing expects air traffic boom to boost global airplane market

EVERETT, Wash. – Boeing’s 20-year outlook for the airplane market is as sunny as ever, even though some analysts worry… Read More

Boeing 737 MAX 10

Amid talk of slowdown, Boeing makes a splash with Paris launch of 737 MAX 10 jet

This week’s Paris Air Show started off with a zoom, in the form of Boeing’s launch of the 737 MAX… Read More

Paris Air Show Boeing video

Paris Air Show teasers show off Boeing’s ballet … and Neva’s flying car in Seattle?

If you like airplanes, you’ll love Boeing’s teaser video for the Paris Air Show, which puts a 787-10 Dreamliner and… Read More

Pivotal Commware beams

Holographic beam-forming antenna startup Pivotal Commware raises $17M from Bill Gates and others

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Chalk up another score for metamaterials technology: Bellevue-based Pivotal Commware says it’s raised $17 million in Series… Read More

Molecular structure

Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group gives $7.5M to studies on epigenetics, aging, evolution

Epigenetics, aging and microbial evolution: Those are the latest words in biomedical research for the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group,… Read More

‘The D.O.D.O. Files’: Neal Stephenson’s time travel novel spawns instant spin-off

Seattle author Neal Stephenson’s newly published science-fiction novel, “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.,” serves as the launch pad for… Read More

Amazon solar panels

Jeff Bezos touts Amazon’s solar power campaign for fulfillment centers

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t the only tech billionaire who’s high on solar power: Today,  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted… Read More

Renton virtual tour screenshot

360-degree virtual tour gives you amazing views of Boeing’s jet factory in Renton

More than 5 million guests have toured Boeing’s airplane factory in Everett, Wash., which ranks as one of the Puget Sound… Read More

Chromium triiodide

Newly created 2-D magnet could point the way to slimmer, faster computers

For the first time, researchers have discovered magnetism in the two-dimensional realm of monolayers, or materials that consist of a… Read More

Amazon proposes a ‘virtual safety shroud’ to protect pets and people from drones

What happens if a child or a dog wanders into range while a drone is dipping down to make a delivery?… Read More

How Boeing plans to test the technologies for future self-flying passenger airplanes

EVERETT, Wash. – The Boeing Co. says it’s on a path that could ultimately lead to self-flying commercial passenger airplanes, starting with… Read More

Robot 2 at Boeing Everett plant

Find out what happens when robots team up with humans for Boeing’s 777X

EVERETT, Wash. – Some manufacturing workers may worry that robots will be stealing their jobs, but not Boeing’s Jordan Northrup. He’s… Read More

Kevin McAllister

Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Kevin McAllister heeds lessons from steel-town upbringing

RENTON, Wash. – Six and a half months into his tenure as Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ president and CEO, Kevin McAllister… Read More

Elon Musk

Tesla CEO Elon Musk touts Semi truck and solar power during freewheeling Q&A

Billionaire Elon Musk’s Q&A sessions are traditionally the most entertaining part of Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting, and this year’s appearance… Read More

Future aircraft

Seattle writers join XPRIZE’s sci-fi advisory council; air travel tales get set for takeoff

The non-profit XPRIZE foundation has recruited an all-star lineup of science fiction masters, including Seattle authors, to help create a series… Read More

Image: Elon Musk

Elon Musk says he’ll break with Donald Trump if Paris climate pact is nixed

Tech billionaire Elon Musk says he’ll have no choice but to leave his posts on the White House’s advisory councils… Read More

Drones vs. trucks: UW study compares carbon footprints for delivery methods

Delivering items with drones instead of trucks is likely to reduce carbon dioxide emissions for short-range trips, or on routes with… Read More

Amazon cleanup robot

Meet the robo-janitor designed by Amazon for cleaning up robotic warehouses

How does Amazon plan to keep automated warehouses free of debris? With automated cleanup robots, of course. At least that’s… Read More

Purdue's Michael Manfra

Purdue joins Microsoft in five-year mission to create topological quantum computer

Microsoft’s big bet to build a usable quantum computer based on two-dimensional quasiparticles just got bigger. Purdue University says it… Read More

Top Marine tries HoloLens

Microsoft HoloLens takes augmented reality to next level for warfighters

Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality system is scoring victories with the U.S. military, which means the goggle-eyed headsets are more likely to… Read More

Northern lights

Northern lights, cameras, action: Night sky watchers capture dramatic aurora over Seattle

The beautiful sunshine in Seattle on Saturday gave way to an equally awesome display in the night sky as the… Read More

Biological NOR gates

UW researchers reprogram genetic code to create digital circuitry inside living cells

Researchers from the University of Washington have taken advantage of synthetic biology to turn yeast cells into building blocks for digital… Read More

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