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

Josh Balk and Hampton Creek cookies

Can faux meat produce meaty profits? Entrepreneurs survey the food frontier

Is there money to be made by going meatless? Substitutes for meat, dairy and eggs have been around for decades,… Read More

Donald Trump

President Trump’s budget plan gets a bad review from the science community

President Donald Trump sent his budget request for the next fiscal year to Congress today, giving the science community a glimpse… Read More

Microsoft holographic display prototype

Microsoft’s next-generation HoloLens glasses may make you look like Clark Kent

Today, Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality headset has a geeky RoboCop vibe, but someday it could become more like a pair of eyeglasses suitable for Superman’s… Read More

Amazon works on drone traffic control software at French development center

Amazon has added France to the list of countries where the Seattle-based retailer is working on its drone delivery system, with… Read More

Echodyne's Eben Frankenberg

Echodyne gets $29M from NEA, Bill Gates and others to boost radar for drones

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen are among the investors putting another $29 million into Echodyne, the Intellectual Ventures spin-out… Read More

Aerix Drone

Hobbyist defeats FAA in battle over drone registration, but says the fight’s not over

Recreational drone users no longer have to register their flying machines with the Federal Aviation Administration, thanks to a federal court… Read More

Dreamliner dining table

Video: Want to fly like a CEO? Rent Deer Jet’s 787 Dreamliner for $70,000 an hour

Now anybody can fly like a VIP: All you have to do to take Deer Jet’s super-elegant 787 Dreamliner for… Read More

Paine Field passenger terminal

Alaska Airlines plans flights from Everett’s Paine Field to dodge Sea-Tac traffic jam

Bugged by I-5 traffic to Sea-Tac? Alaska Airlines is promising a work-around: The Seattle-based airline says it will start running regularly… Read More

Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric

‘Genius’ TV show highlights links between Einstein’s love affairs and love of physics

National Geographic Channel’s “Genius” TV series on Albert Einstein spends almost as much time on the famous physicist’s love life as… Read More

Tunnel boring machine

Warning: Elon Musk posts dizzying views of his first tunnel boring tests in L.A.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, demonstrated once again that he’s serious about boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles. But… Read More

White House graphic

Trump signs cybersecurity executive order, mandating a move to cloud computing

President Donald Trump today signed a long-awaited executive order aimed at beefing up cybersecurity at federal government agencies – with a… Read More

Fixed-wing drone

Drone sets a long-distance delivery record

Team Roadrunner, a Nevada-based drone consortium, says it set a record for long-distance drone delivery last week in Texas. The… Read More

Solar roof tiles

Elon Musk’s Tesla starts taking orders for solar glass roof tiles; delivery due this year

Tesla has started taking orders for traditional-looking glass roof tiles that soak up solar power to generate electricity. Installations are… Read More

Hanford tunnel cave-in

Tunnel cave-in sparks emergency alert at Hanford; no radiation leaks detected

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation says a 20-foot section of a tunnel system where it stores contaminated material and equipment collapsed today,… Read More

Homo naledi

Scientists argue that humanlike Homo naledi lived alongside our species in Africa

The paleontologists who discovered a previously unknown line of human ancestors in South Africa say that they’ve found more fossils… Read More

Boeing-built Talon HATE pod on F-15

Boeing and Air Force demonstrate new airborne networking system for fighter jets

The Boeing Co. and the U.S. Air Force say they’ve shown that a new type of communication pod for F-15… Read More

UW researchers map widening gap in life expectancy and call for policy changes

A county-by-county survey of U.S. life expectancy reports a 20-year gap between the lows and the highs – a gap that… Read More

FlowLight at work

FlowLight flashes red when workmates should leave you alone ‘in the zone’

It’s a classic conundrum for coders: Sometimes you get so absorbed in what you’re doing that you hate being interrupted,… Read More

OneRadio signal display

UW CoMotion spinout OneRadio takes the wraps off its wideband radio receiver

OneRadio Corp. has been working on its dragnet for radio transmissions for two years in stealth mode, but the spinout… Read More

Amazon Alexa phone link

Amazon patent shows how Alexa-powered devices could turn into extension phones

We’ve known for weeks that Amazon has been working on ways to give Alexa-powered, voice-controlled devices the ability to make… Read More

Aeroflot 777 turbulence

27 hurt when Aeroflot 777 jet hits clear air turbulence on Moscow-Bangkok flight

More than two dozen passengers on an Aeroflot Boeing 777 jet reportedly sought medical treatment after a scary run-in with… Read More

Elon Musk Boring Company transit tunnel

Elon Musk digs into his fixation with boring transit tunnels in a non-boring TED talk

When billionaire Elon Musk sat down for a 40-minute TED talk last week in Vancouver, B.C., he could have started… Read More

Digital Construction Platform robot

This robot can build a 50-foot-wide house all by itself in 14 hours, at MIT or on Mars

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a double-armed, laser-guided robot that can basically 3-D print a 50-foot-wide… Read More

Evidence of ancient humans in San Diego

Scientists are wowed by claim that humans lived in North America 130,000 years ago

Scientists say the patterns of breakage in mastodon bones found 25 years ago near a San Diego highway suggest that humans… Read More

Waymo family

Waymo opens self-driving car testing in Phoenix – and scores in Uber legal battle

It’s been a good day on the streets and in the courts for Waymo, the driverless-car company that was spun… Read More

Uber unveils its flying-car team and aims for a 2020 liftoff in Dallas and Dubai

Uber has been talking about flying cars for months, but today the ride-sharing company fleshed out its plan to become a… Read More

Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein in "Genius"

Sex, spies and Einstein on TV: National Geographic’s ‘Genius’ spices up science

There have been plenty of TV documentaries about Albert Einstein, but almost none of them begin with a political assassination… Read More

Mozak brain screenshot

Mozak turns brain cell mapping into video game, thanks to UW and Allen Institute

A game called Mozak is turning thousands of Internet users into “tracers” who help neuroscientists map out the tangled circuitry of brain… Read More

Kitty Hawk Flyer

Flying car? Kitty Hawk’s first working prototype looks more like a flying raft

Kitty Hawk, the hush-hush flying car venture backed by Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page, unveiled the first working prototype of… Read More

Watch ‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye’s epic defense of science at ‘March for Science’ in Washington, D.C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x507ZlDoc-Y Bill Nye “the Science Guy,” the television personality and former Boeing engineer who got his start in Seattle TV sketch comedy, gave a… Read More

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