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Jerome Lecoq and Kate Roll at Allen Brain Observatory

Allen Brain Observatory peers into the minds of mice as they watch movies

The Allen Brain Observatory is open for business, revealing what’s running through the mind of a mouse as it sees patterns… Read More

Solar Impulse over the pyramids

Solar Impulse gets a pyramid photo op in Egypt, prepares for round-the-world finale

After a photo op with the Great Pyramids, the Solar Impulse 2 airplane touched down in Egypt for the last… Read More

Solar Impulse in Seville

Fuel-free Solar Impulse airplane heads for its last round-the-world layover in Egypt

Sixteen months after it started, the fuel-free Solar Impulse 2 airplane took off before dawn Monday for what’s expected to… Read More

Aedes aegypti mosquito, disease carrier

Dengue fever calling: Researchers forecast disease outbreaks with hotline traffic

Researchers from the University of Washington and elsewhere say they can forecast the rise and fall of dengue fever outbreaks as much… Read More

Naveen Jain

Naveen Jain’s BlueDot innovation factory fills out $10.1 million funding round

BELLEVUE, Wash. – BlueDot, the “innovation factory” founded by serial tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain, says it has completed a $10.1… Read More

Image: Bomb disposal robot

Killer bomb robot ends Dallas shooting ordeal and begins new debate over policing

Thursday night’s horrific Dallas shooting ordeal may well mark the first time police ended a standoff with a suspect by… Read More

Google Deepmind eye image analysis for AI

White House’s final artificial intelligence workshop highlights need for humans to hold the reins on AI

The White House wound up a nationwide series of workshops on artificial intelligence today on a cautionary note: Yes, AI… Read More

FDA suspends Juno Therapeutics clinical trial for leukemia treatment after 2 patient deaths

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a hold on a Juno Therapeutics clinical trial of a treatment for a… Read More

Cuban and U.S. flag: Havana

Alaska Airlines wins tentative approval to fly Seattle-L.A.-Havana route to Cuba

The U.S. Department of Transportation today gave its tentative go-ahead for Alaska Airlines to fly between Los Angeles and Havana, the capital of… Read More

Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Boeing shows off its 787-9 Dreamliner jet in teaser video for Farnborough Airshow

If you love watching airplanes taking it to the max, you’ll dig the video showing a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jet… Read More

Pencil and test tube of DNA

Video in a test tube? Microsoft and UW raise the bar for DNA data storage systems

Computer scientists from Microsoft and the University of Washington say they’ve set a new standard for DNA storage of digital… Read More

Drone

Washington is creating Unmanned Systems Industry Council for drone ventures

Officials at the Washington State Department of Commerce are working to create an Unmanned Systems Industry Council to foster commercial… Read More

Dinosaur die-off

How climate change plus asteroid struck a ‘one-two punch’ for dinosaur extinction

Scientists generally agree that a catastrophic asteroid blast killed off the dinosaurs and most of Earth’s other species more than… Read More

NASA-funded UW researchers develop kidney-stone zapping technology

Imagine you are an astronaut, chosen for the first manned mission to Mars. After years of preparation, dozens of health… Read More

Bioluminescence at Shaw Island

6 bright ideas for summer science books

Summer reading is often light and airy, but those are qualities that don’t usually apply to science books. Now that… Read More

"Voyage of Time" IMAX poster

30 years in the making, ‘Voyage of Time’ trailer sends you on a cosmic trip

The video trailer for “Voyage of Time” provides a trippy taste of a movie that’s been more than 30 years… Read More

Tesla autopilot

Feds investigate crash that killed driver while using Autopilot on Tesla Model S car

Tesla Motors says it’s cooperating with federal authorities in the investigation of the first known traffic death involving a driver… Read More

Sgt. Star from Next IT

Chatbot pioneer Next IT raising $20M to deploy an army of AI assistants

Before Siri, Cortana and Alexa, there was Next IT and its chatbots: The Spokane Valley company made it possible for… Read More

Michael Katze

UW mulls disciplinary action in sexual harassment case involving Ebola researcher Michael Katze

The University of Washington says that an internal investigation has found virus researcher Michael Katze violated sexual harassment policies – and… Read More

Watch today: Fred Hutch hosts Cancer ‘Moonshot’ Summit in Seattle to accelerate search for a cure

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Americans to rally around a lofty goal: Landing on the moon. Today, Vice… Read More

Satya Nadella

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella lays out 10 Laws of AI (and Human Behavior)

Taking a page from Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has drawn up six “musts”… Read More

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking warns of ‘AI arms race’ – and reveals what most mystifies him

British physicist Stephen Hawking says the potential threat from artificial intelligence isn’t just a far-off “Terminator”-style nightmare. He’s already pointing… Read More

Image: TV AI prediction scene

Scientists force computer to binge on TV shows and predict what humans will do

Researchers have taught a computer to do a better-than-expected job of predicting what characters on TV shows will do, just… Read More

SpotMini

Video: SpotMini robot will clean up your house — when it’s not slipping on banana peels

The latest robot dog-like thing from Boston Dynamics — that we would totally want but be totally afraid of —… Read More

Microsoft Lumia phone

British vote to exit EU throws techies (and the rest of the world) into a tizzy

Just a couple of days ago, longtime Seattle tech entrepreneur Marcelo Calbucci was excited about moving his family to London.… Read More

Piccard and Borschberg

¡Olé! Solar Impulse airplane speeds over the Atlantic and lands in Spain

The world’s most traveled fuel-free airplane, Solar Impulse 2, made better time than expected and landed in Spain today, leaving… Read More

Solar Impulse takeoff

Farewell to the USA: Solar Impulse plane starts four-day odyssey across the Atlantic

The all-electric Solar Impulse 2 plane left America’s shores tonight and began what’s expected to be a 90-hour trip across… Read More

X-57 Maxwell

NASA gets first official X-plane in a decade: Electric craft named X-57 Maxwell

NASA says it has received its first X-plane designation in a decade, for a research aircraft that has 14 electric… Read More

Bill Gates

Bill Gates talks Trump and Clinton and his hope to continue global health efforts with either

Bill Gates has spent years working on global health and fighting to eradicate diseases of poverty in developing countries, and in… Read More

Image: Boeing 787

Iranian reports hint at huge Boeing jet deal

Reports from Tehran suggest that Iran’s flag carrier airline has struck a deal to purchase jetliners from the Boeing Co., which would… Read More

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