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No wind-pocalypse: Northwest storm isn’t that strong but still does damage

The rains and the winds that were spawned by Typhoon Songda swept through Western Washington tonight, leaving downed trees and… Read More

Hyperloop One gets a $50 million boost

Hyperloop One, an L.A.-based venture that wants to commercialize Elon Musk’s rapid-transit concept, says it has received $50 million in… Read More

Storm’s one-two punch starts hitting Northwest: The big blow is on for Saturday

The first of two big storm fronts swept through the Pacific Northwest today, leaving tens of thousands without power in Western Washington… Read More

Obama goes into full (and feisty) geek mode at White House Frontiers Conference

President Barack Obama stated the obvious today during what almost sounded like a farewell address to the tech community he… Read More

Brain implant provides sense of touch with robotic hand – and that’s just the start

A dozen years ago, an auto accident left Nathan Copeland paralyzed, without any feeling in his fingers. Now that feeling is… Read More

Bill Gates-backed Kymeta wows Monaco’s yacht crowd with its flat-panel antennas

Kymeta Corp., the flat-panel antenna company that’s backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has demonstrated the capabilities of its satellite… Read More

How to cope with what’s shaping up as the Northwest’s ‘most powerful storm’

There’s a storm coming. A big one. So big that Seattle weather guru Cliff Mass says it could match the… Read More

GeekWire at the Movies: ‘Voyage of Time’ lays out a visual book of scientific genesis

Is it possible to create a visual gospel, to be seen on a movie screen rather than read from a… Read More

Boeing to convert nine 767 jets into Atlas Air freighters for Amazon Prime Air

Boeing says it will convert nine used 767 passenger jets into freighters for Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, which will use… Read More

Brooke Owens Fellowships will boost women in aerospace (and we’re helping)

Space industry pioneer Brooke Owens didn’t live long enough to reach the final frontier, but her life has inspired a… Read More

U.S. formally accuses Russian officials of email meddling in presidential politics

The U.S. intelligence community is formally accusing the Russian government of playing a role in email hacks aimed at casting… Read More

Qatar Airways signs on for up to 100 Boeing jets, sending Airbus a message

Qatar Airways today sent a strong message to the Boeing Co. – and to Airbus, its European rival – by… Read More

Gov. Jay Inslee lays out five-point plan for boosting Washington’s aerospace industry

LYNNWOOD, Wash. – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee today laid out a down-to-earth prescription for keeping the Evergreen State competitive in the… Read More

Will it be Washington? Spike Aerospace is still up in the air on supersonic jet plant

LYNNWOOD, Wash. – Boston-based Spike Aerospace is moving a bit more slowly than planned on its process to pick the site… Read More

Juno CEO: Washington state biotech is ‘going backwards,’ needs support from Olympia to catch up

While Washington state’s biotech industry is on the up and up, it still lags far behind hubs like San Francisco… Read More

Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views

How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more… Read More

UW’s David Thouless wins share of Nobel physics prize for weird science of superconductors

David Thouless, a British-born professor emeritus at the University of Washington, has been awarded half of this year’s Nobel physics… Read More

Intellectual Ventures’ invention network spins out and reinvents itself as Xinova

There’s a “new, new” name in the invention business: Xinova, a company that’s been spun out from Intellectual Ventures and… Read More

Quantum study sparks questions about why time runs forward and not backward

Why do we remember the past, but not the future? It seems like a silly question, but for some scientists, it’s… Read More

Stephen Hawking tours five favorite places in the universe in CuriosityStream video

You’d think that physicist Stephen Hawking’s favorite place on Earth would be his native England, but it’s actually someplace completely… Read More

U.S. and Boeing see WTO ruling as huge victory in dispute over Airbus subsidies

The World Trade Organization turned up the heat on Europe’s aerospace industry today by ruling that Airbus was continuing to… Read More

Microsoft’s cancer moonshot: Debug the disease as if it’s a computer glitch

Microsoft researchers are doing a bug bash on cancer, complete with software code names like “Project Hanover.” Some of them… Read More

Kat Schaffer in Alternative Spring Break

Boeing awards $6 million in grants for STEM education (and its future workforce)

Three universities and scores of other educational programs stand to benefit from $6 million in grants from the Boeing Co.… Read More

How to geek out with Neil deGrasse Tyson, on stage, on screen or with a book

Few people can geek out to a movie harder than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, but he met his match when… Read More

Stephen Hawking in "Into the Universe" on Discovery Channel

Stephen Hawking and 374 other scientists speak up for climate pact (and against Donald Trump)

An open letter from 375 scientists is voicing concern about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s views on climate change – and… Read More

Libertarian Gary Johnson fills out the foursome for Science Debate’s policy quiz

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson may not be on stage for this year’s televised presidential debates, but he is getting his say… Read More

Washington state’s drone industry council sails through its maiden flight

Washington state officials convened the first meeting of an industry council focusing on drones and related businesses today, after a… Read More

Portland startup Phylos Bioscience raises funds to bring a scientific approach to the cannabis industry

When Mowgli Holmes moved back to his home state of Oregon in 2013, the cannabis industry was beginning to take off in… Read More

GeekWire at the Movies: ‘Snowden’ rallies defenders of fugitive whistleblower

Whether you see him as a patriot or a traitor, it’s a big week for Edward Snowden, who was forced to… Read More

Seattle’s Sound Pharmaceuticals raising $30M to advance trials of hearing-loss drug

Sound Pharmaceuticals, a Seattle startup developing therapies and preventative treatments for hearing loss, is in the midst of a $30 million… Read More