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Human IPS cells imaged by spinning-disk confocal microscope.

May 18, 2023, 9:00 AM

Allen Institute takes on a supporting role in experiment to grow stem cells in space

Space: The final frontier … for stem cells? Seattle’s Allen Institute for Cell Science says cells from its collection are… Read More

Apr 6, 2023, 5:00 PM

Icebergs ahead? OceanGate plans to get an early start on this year’s Titanic dives

OceanGate Expeditions, which has conducted dives to the site of the Titanic shipwreck in 2021 and 2022, says it will… Read More

Feb 21, 2023, 10:05 AM

Bill to designate official Washington state dinosaur moves step closer thanks to ancient leg bone

Lawmakers pondering the relevance of a dinosaur leg bone moved a step closer to designating the unique find as Washington… Read More

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania / Quantum

Feb 16, 2023, 10:46 AM

Get a reality check on quantum computing vs. ‘Quantumania’ in Marvel’s latest movie

Ant-Man may be getting small in Marvel’s latest superhero movie — but in the real world, quantum is getting big.… Read More

Titanic's bow, seen during OceanGate dive

Feb 8, 2023, 6:00 AM

OceanGate provides a guided video tour of Titanic shipwreck — and gets set to return

The latest film about the Titanic doesn’t show Leonardo DiCaprio standing up on the bow’s railings — instead, a single… Read More

Illustration: Man with virtual world in hand

Jan 9, 2023, 12:22 PM

Sci-fi author and scientist team up to write a novel about consciousness and quantum weirdness

Do we each create our own reality? Could different observers create measurably different realities? It’s a fantastical line of thought… Read More

Dec 10, 2022, 10:09 PM

Scientists tangle over a Jurassic mystery: Could the tail of a dinosaur go supersonic?

The dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus could certainly do a lot of damage with its long tail — but just… Read More

Nov 5, 2022, 8:00 AM

Startup partners with AI2 to help people access information in research studies

A new startup, Consensus, is partnering with the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) to help make the information in… Read More

Oct 28, 2022, 8:00 AM

Inside the Univ. of Washington’s new greenhouse, where a tech upgrade keeps the 6,000 plants happy

Exposure to plants and nature is said to make humans calmer and more productive, and just feel better overall. That… Read More

Oct 25, 2022, 1:00 PM

OceanGate explorers solve a 26-year-old mystery and document life near the Titanic

During an expedition to the Titanic back in 1996, submersible pilot PH Nargeolet noticed a curious sonar blip that was… Read More

Oct 11, 2022, 11:47 AM

Decades after creating a sci-fi metaverse, Neal Stephenson works on making it real

Microsoft and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, have their own visions for a virtual world called the metaverse — but an… Read More

Oct 8, 2022, 9:00 AM

Beyond the Titanic: OceanGate’s founder contemplates future deep-sea frontiers

When it comes to undersea adventures, can anything match seeing the 110-year-old wreck of the Titanic with your own eyes?… Read More

Octopus seen during Ocean Observatories Initiative's Vision '13 expedition

Oct 4, 2022, 9:30 AM

What octopus intelligence can teach us about artificial intelligence — and aliens

Are intelligent aliens living among us? A newly published novel just might lead you to think so — and in… Read More

Aug 30, 2022, 8:00 AM

OceanGate’s high-def 8K video of Titanic wreck reveals previously unseen details

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate Expeditions set a new standard this year for documenting the condition of the 110-year-old wreck of the… Read More

Aug 29, 2022, 8:00 AM

Sneaky synthetic molecules open the way for new types of drugs and a new startup

Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered how to create peptide molecules that can slip through membranes to enter… Read More

Aug 21, 2022, 9:00 AM

OceanGate’s explorers update their view of a tattered Titanic ⁠and the life around it

After his second yearly series of dives to the Titanic, the CEO and founder of Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says the… Read More

Jul 8, 2022, 4:55 PM

Tsunami advice triggers quake confusion: Stop, drop and cover or head for the hills?

News this week that a big earthquake in Seattle could trigger destructive tsunami waves that would hit some shorelines in… Read More

Jun 8, 2022, 8:00 AM

Google developers set another record for calculating digits of pi: 100 trillion!

Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google set the world record for calculating… Read More

Jun 6, 2022, 5:54 PM

OceanGate ramps up the research for its second deep-sea expedition to the Titanic

One year after OceanGate’s first expedition to the Titanic shipwreck, the Everett, Wash.-based company is gearing up for its second… Read More

Mar 21, 2022, 6:40 PM

Microsoft adds Pasqal’s neutral-atom processors to its Azure Quantum cloud computing lineup

Microsoft’s Azure Quantum cloud computing service will be adding a brand-new tool to its toolbox: Pasqal’s neutral-atom quantum processing system.… Read More

Mar 19, 2022, 8:50 AM

Univ. of Washington plans new biotech workforce center in Bothell with $750K in federal funding

The University of Washington Bothell has landed $750,000 in federal funding to support a new center to focus on educating… Read More

Mar 17, 2022, 4:36 PM

Seattle-area high school senior awarded $250,000 for gravitational wave research

Christine Ye, a senior at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Wash., has won the top award in the nation’s oldest… Read More

Mar 15, 2022, 6:46 PM

OceanGate plans environmental DNA survey during this summer’s dives to Titanic shipwreck site

What’s lurking at the Titanic shipwreck site, nearly 13,000 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic? Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate… Read More

Mar 15, 2022, 8:12 AM

Univ. of Washington science programs to be housed in new building that includes public, private tenants

Several scientific programs at the University of Washington will expand into part of a planned 11-story building approved by the… Read More

Researcher checking quantum computing hardware

Mar 14, 2022, 11:44 AM

Microsoft reports a Majorana development in its quest to build quantum computers

Microsoft says its researchers have found evidence of an exotic phenomenon that’s key to its plans to build general-purpose quantum… Read More

Mar 10, 2022, 11:38 AM

Bill Gates’ TerraPower wins $8.5M in federal funding for conversion of used nuclear fuel

BELLEVUE, Wash. — TerraPower, the Bellevue-based nuclear power venture co-founded by Bill Gates, has won an $8.55 million grant from… Read More

Mar 9, 2022, 2:00 PM

Q&A: Univ. of Washington STEM leader on her Presidential Award and supporting women faculty

An academic career in STEM is about specialized knowledge, access, and connections that foster collaboration and access. Professors are managers,… Read More

Feb 17, 2022, 5:00 AM

IonQ teams up with Pacific Northwest National Lab on a new supply chain for quantum computing

Dare we say it? Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has teamed up with IonQ to come up with a method for… Read More

Feb 14, 2022, 8:00 AM

Univ. of Washington DNA testing shows links between criminal elephant ivory traffickers

Since 2004, scientists at the University of Washington have used DNA to help uncover criminal networks behind the trafficking of… Read More

Feb 8, 2022, 9:18 AM

Quantum computing venture backed by Jeff Bezos will leap into public trading with $1.2B valuation

Burnaby, B.C.-based D-Wave Systems, the quantum computing company that counts Jeff Bezos among its investors and NASA among its customers,… Read More