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Kineta wins $7.2M award to develop antiviral drug focused on Lassa fever

Seattle-based biotech startup Kineta today announced that it won a $7.2 million award to develop an antiviral drug therapy for… Read More

Hyperloop One unveils a new name, new partners and $80 million in new funding

Forget Hyperloop Technologies: Now the company is called Hyperloop One, and it’s backed by $80 million in new investment from heavy… Read More

Electric transportation generates the biggest buzz in $50M Smart City Challenge

The winner of the $50 million Smart City Challenge won’t be announced until next month, but the organizers have already… Read More

Scientists say early Earth’s atmosphere would have left us light-headed

Tiny bubbles that were trapped inside 2.7 billion-year-old rocks have led scientists to conclude that Earth’s atmosphere was less than… Read More

UW team creates robotic hand that learns to become more dexterous than yours

Pianists, surgeons, typists, gamers and baton-twirlers all learn to use their hands more skillfully as they ply their trade, but what… Read More

Commercial Hyperloop race heats up: Maglev system revealed, and more to come

This is a big week for the Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation concept that was laid out three years ago by… Read More

AVM Biotechnology raising $17.5M to improve safety and delivery of stem cells

Seattle-based AVM Biotechnology is raising more cash for its technology that helps improve stem cell delivery. AVM executive Michael Kuran… Read More

Scientists add twists to protein designs

Biochemists from the University of Washington have engineered complex protein molecules with additional chemical bonds that make it possible to… Read More

Aerospace worlds collide: Seattle designers create showcase for … Airbus?

Captain Kirk from the original “Star Trek” is celebrating Star Wars Day today, so maybe it shouldn’t be so surprising that… Read More

Tesla revs up production plan for Model 3 cars; Elon Musk is sleeping in the factory

Tesla Motors says it will ramp up production of its best-selling Model 3 electric car much more quickly than planned,… Read More

This robot surgeon does a superhuman job on sutures – but there’s a catch

Researchers have programmed a robot to sew up intestines autonomously, with more precision than the typical human surgeon achieves. Right now,… Read More

Designer proteins, created and edited on computers, open up new biotech frontiers

Synthetic genomes and gene editing are big things today, but the next big things in biotechnology could be proteins that are… Read More

Gravitational-wave detection earns LIGO scientists a $3 million Breakthrough Prize

This year’s revelations about gravitational waves are certain to win someone a Nobel Prize someday, but an even richer prize… Read More

Round-the-world Solar Impulse plane takes 16-hour hop from California to Arizona

A solar-powered ultralight airplane called Solar Impulse 2 landed in Phoenix tonight after a nearly 16-hour flight from California’s Silicon Valley, finishing… Read More

Echodyne unveils a palm-size radar that’s just right for drones and driverless cars

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Radar and aircraft go together like hand and glove, but what do you do when the aircraft is… Read More

Army Corps of Engineers confirms view that Kennewick Man was Native American

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just ruled that an 8,500-year-old set of skeletal remains known as Kennewick Man or… Read More

Why your robotic surgeon will have a human overlord looking over its shoulder

A surgeon peers into a high-definition monitor, studies the ragged edge of a heart valve, and twiddles her fingers in a… Read More

Hanford workers detect contamination at another waste storage tank

Workers at Eastern Washington’s Hanford Site are trying to track down the source of radioactive contamination at an underground waste… Read More

Faster, quieter, greener: Will NASA’s campaign for X-planes pick up speed?

NASA is laying out a vision of quieter supersonic jets and environmentally friendly X-planes as part of its agenda for aeronautics, the… Read More

Tech reality check: Three jokes from HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ with a kernel of truth

SPOILER ALERT: Readers, please note: The following item discusses plot points from Sunday night’s season premiere of “Silicon Valley.” If you haven’t… Read More

Microsoft extends the ‘Internet of Things’ to jet engines, refrigerators and more

Soon the “Internet of Things” will be keeping watch on jet engines, refrigerators and freezers, factory floors and more, thanks to… Read More

Solar Impulse round-the-world plane lands in California after 2.5-day flight

Two and a half days after setting out from Hawaii, pilot Bertrand Piccard made a picture-postcard arrival in California tonight aboard… Read More

BioViva’s Liz Parrish makes progress in controversial gene quest to reverse aging

The way BioViva founder Elizabeth Parrish sees it, biological aging is a disease – and she’s willing to bet her life on a… Read More

Talk Dothraki to me: Q&A with ‘Game of Thrones’ linguist David J. Peterson

This season’s plot twists on HBO’s “Game of Thrones” are closely guarded secrets, but you can bet you’ll be hearing… Read More

All clear: Hanford toxic waste removal resumes after tank is checked for leaks

The U.S. Department of Energy says there’s no sign that toxic waste has leaked into the environment from a double-shell… Read More

‘Let’s go!’ Solar Impulse airplane resumes fuel-free odyssey around the world

More than a year after its odyssey began, the Solar Impulse 2 airplane resumed its round-the-world, solar-powered trip in Hawaii today. The ultra-lightweight… Read More

Who will win ‘Game of Thrones’? Who dies? There’s a prediction market for that

She belongs to a political family who used to be in power. She’s leading the odds to take the reins of… Read More

Who’s hot in academia? Semantic Scholar dives more deeply into the data

Baseball players are judged by their batting averages, RBIs, ERAs and other statistics voluminous enough to fill a scorecard. But… Read More

Tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain fleshes out plans for BlueDot innovation factory

Naveen Jain’s Moon Express is well along in its plans for a lunar mission next year, but the Seattle dot-com… Read More

BluHaptics wins $747,000 grant to create 3-D piloting system for underwater robots

BluHaptics has received a $747,197 grant from the National Science Foundation to work on a virtual-reality robotic control system that… Read More