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IBM Watson AI XPRIZE offers $5M for projects that link humans and computers – but who’ll sign up?

The latest multimillion-dollar tech challenge – known as the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE – will be aimed at encouraging collaboration… Read More

Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses $1M TED Prize for crowdsourced quest

Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak says she’ll use this year’s $1 million TED Prize to create a game that gives players… Read More

Wildlife DNA dragnet widens to protect elephants and pangolins from poaching

WASHINGTON, D.C. – DNA tests conducted by researchers from the University of Washington helped bring down one of Africa’s biggest kingpins… Read More

Cybathlon turns Olympic-style spotlight on Iron Man tech: brain control, exoskeletons and more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Imagine a contest for the kinds of technologies that would set Tony Stark’s nuclear-powered heart all aflutter… Read More

3-D bioprinter makes room for blood vessels in artificial body parts

Researchers say they’ve developed a 3-D bioprinter that can create artificial body parts with ready-made channels for getting nutrients and… Read More

AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol: Odds are shifting in $1 million man-vs.-machine Go match

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Both sides in next month’s big $1 million AI-vs.-human Go match say they’re confident they’ll prevail. But… Read More

AI prophets say robots could spark unemployment – and a revolution

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The robot revolution may put half of us humans out of a job by 2045 – and if… Read More

As big as the Higgs: Stephen Hawking says gravitational waves could revolutionize astronomy

British physicist Stephen Hawking says the detection of gravitational waves provides a completely new way of looking at the universe,… Read More

Neanderthal DNA linked to nicotine addiction and other modern maladies

A comparison of Neanderthal DNA with the genomes of present-day patients has pointed up connections between our now-extinct cousins and… Read More

Hanford’s scientists finally spill gravitational-wave secrets – but they still can’t tell all

HANFORD, Wash. – Physicists here had to keep mum for nearly five months about the gravitational-wave breakthrough they helped make, but… Read More

Gravitational waves found! LIGO experiment watches two black holes smash together

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than a decade of looking, scientists say they’ve detected the gravitational waves given off when two… Read More

Boeing sees sunny skies for airlines

LYNNWOOD, Wash. – The stock market may be caught in a downdraft, but things are looking up for the commercial airline… Read More

How Amazon inspired a drone delivery system for birth control in Ghana

When U.N. health experts were trying to come up with a way to deliver contraceptives to women in hard-to-reach areas of… Read More

Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest

It looks as if scientists have chosen Thursday as the day to announce a potentially Nobel Prize-winning discovery: the first… Read More

Deadly force? FAA goes long with its Super Bowl no-drone zone

No means no when it comes to the Federal Aviation Administration’s no-drone zone for Super Bowl Sunday. Not even CBS,… Read More

After gravitation-wave rumors, it’s getting close to go time for Advanced LIGO results

The scientists behind the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory are getting ready to reveal their latest findings, amid a flurry… Read More

Dramatic drone video from Sea Shepherd shows blue whale mother, calf in open ocean

We’re accustomed to seeing dramatic videos from the folks at Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as they often take aggressive action… Read More

Wendelstein 7-X fusion ‘pretzel’ fires up its first hydrogen plasma in Germany

Hydrogen plasma was produced for the first time today in Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X fusion device, which has been called the… Read More

Editas Medicine raises $94M in first gene-editing IPO, and then stock price rises

Editas Medicine’s entry into the stock market with a $94.4 million initial public offering appears to be sparking positive signals… Read More

Governments and earthquake experts intensify planning for the ‘Really Big One’

A public-private campaign to improve America’s resilience to future earthquakes, like the “Really Big One” that’s expected to hit the… Read More

Iowa caucuses throw presidential predictions into a tizzy: Cruz upsets Trump

Update for 9:20 p.m. PT: The Iowans have spoken, and the GOP presidential caucuses confounded the prediction markets by giving… Read More

‘The Age of Aerospace’: Boeing sponsors TV series looking back at 100 years of high-flying history

This year marks the Boeing Co’s 100th anniversary, and the company is using the centennial as an opportunity not only… Read More

Researchers use brain electrodes to read minds at nearly the speed of thought

University of Washington neuroscientists and their colleagues have developed a system that uses electrodes implanted in the human brain’s temporal… Read More

MIT leads in first round of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop contest, but UW is in the race

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the top rating in the design phase of a SpaceX-sponsored contest to develop levitating… Read More

UW researchers trace a connection between the moon and the rain

When the moon is high in the sky, its gravitational pull warps the atmosphere enough to reduce rainfall ever so… Read More

EMC2 revives its quest for nuclear fusion

After languishing in limbo for most of the last year, EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. says it’s back in business with… Read More

Boeing’s fuel-saving 737 MAX jet gets a ‘wow’ review after first flight

Boeing’s newest breed of airplane, the fuel-efficient 737 MAX, took to the air for the first time today – and… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to go into space by 2021 and start Mars missions by 2025

SpaceX founder Elon Musk says he has his heart set on going into space himself, perhaps in the next four… Read More

White House earthquake summit will unveil preparations for the ‘Really Big One’

The Pacific Northwest mega-quake known as “the Really Big One” may not be televised, but a White House summit focusing… Read More

How robots are taking over the milking parlor, and why that’s good for cows and farmers

OAKVILLE, Wash. – The Austin family’s cows seem a lot more contented since the robots took over the milking. It’s the humans,… Read More