Science – Page 7 of 69

Jan 5, 2021, 9:11 PM

Boeing says its composites R&D center will be turned to other purposes, ending an era

Boeing says it’ll be repurposing the Seattle-area facility that has served as the focus for research into the composite materials… Read More

Dec 28, 2020, 2:48 PM

FAA issues safety rules that could smooth the way for Amazon drone deliveries

After months of feedback and fine-tuning, the Federal Aviation Administration today issued its final versions of safety rules for drones… Read More

Dec 22, 2020, 1:22 PM

Electric aircraft motor company MagniX lands deal to power UK startup’s planned 300-plane fleet

A Seattle-area company has been picked to provide the electric motors for a proposed fleet of 300 aircraft to be… Read More

Dec 14, 2020, 10:51 AM

After 737 MAX debacle, former Boeing CEO makes a comeback at Monarch self-driving tractor venture

It’s been almost a year since Boeing fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg over his handling of the 737 MAX crisis, but… Read More

Dec 8, 2020, 12:54 PM

QuantumScape pursues ‘breakthrough’ in lithium batteries — with tips from Bill Gates

Bill Gates isn’t just investing in QuantumScape’s potentially revolutionary lithium-metal battery technology — he’s giving the venture advice as well.… Read More

Dec 7, 2020, 1:36 PM

‘Smellicopter’ takes flight at UW with moth antenna on drone to fly toward smells and avoid obstacles

University of Washington researchers continue to push the boundaries between the technical and insect worlds in the pursuit of gaining… Read More

Dec 3, 2020, 6:00 PM

President Trump signs an executive order guiding how federal agencies use AI tech

President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that puts the White House Office of Management and Budget in charge… Read More

Nov 30, 2020, 6:00 AM

Kymeta rolls out its next-gen connectivity service, blending satellite and cellular links

Kymeta Corp., the Redmond, Wash.-based connectivity venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is making the next generation of its… Read More

Nov 26, 2020, 10:00 AM

‘Superintelligence’ in Seattle: AI researchers do a reality check on a movie that adds romance to tech

Seattle, Microsoft and the field of artificial intelligence come in for their share of the spotlight in “Superintelligence” — an… Read More

Nov 18, 2020, 10:59 AM

FAA’s go-ahead for 737 MAX’s return to flight kicks off a massive software upgrade

Two years after the catastrophic crash of a Boeing 737 MAX jet in Indonesia touched off an aviation crisis, the… Read More

Nov 17, 2020, 2:30 PM

Sexbot or not? Ethicist stimulates debate on the senior set’s need for companionship

Are sex robots just what the doctor ordered for the over-65 set? In a newly published research paper, a bioethicist… Read More

Nov 12, 2020, 12:15 PM

Microsoft helps found an industry alliance to advance DNA data storage systems

Microsoft is teaming up with other companies to form an alliance to advance the field of DNA data storage, which… Read More

Nov 12, 2020, 11:00 AM

New human cell atlases track how tissues develop, providing a road map for research

Two new human cell atlases have mapped the molecular machinery that builds tissue in the weeks after conception — and… Read More

Nov 8, 2020, 1:14 PM

Science-fiction master Ted Chiang explores the rights and wrongs of AI

What rights does a robot have? If our machines become intelligent in the science-fiction way, that’s likely to become a… Read More

Oct 30, 2020, 5:14 PM

Photos: Tree deep in Asian giant hornet nest, entomologists recover ‘chewed off’ radio tracker

Just in time for Halloween, the Washington State Department of Agriculture is revealing just what was inside a truly haunted… Read More

Oct 29, 2020, 9:05 AM

UW receives $23.5M grant to build and deploy fleet of robotic ocean-monitoring floats

The University of Washington is receiving a large chunk of a massive new grant from the National Science Foundation to… Read More

Oct 27, 2020, 5:08 PM

Health experts weigh in on what we’ll have to do to get through a winter of COVID-19

You may want to put off that big holiday dinner. Don’t have your heart set on sending the kids back… Read More

Oct 26, 2020, 11:52 AM

Seattle startup Membrion creating spray coating to help cloth masks better guard against coronavirus

Membrion, the Seattle startup that spun out of the University of Washington four years ago, is working on new technology… Read More

Oct 24, 2020, 8:00 AM

UW researcher put tiny tracking technology on giant hornets to help state deal with murderous pest

A researcher from the University of Washington, using tiny technology, has been playing a big role in helping state entomologists… Read More

Oct 23, 2020, 9:18 AM

Using radio trackers, scientists locate ‘murder hornet’ nest in Washington state — first ever in U.S.

Washington State Department of Agriculture entomologists have successfully located an Asian giant hornet nest on a property in Blaine, Wash.,… Read More

Oct 16, 2020, 6:20 PM

OceanGate gets set for dives to Titanic while overcoming the complications of COVID-19

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate is getting ready to send explorers down to survey the wreck of the Titanic in its own… Read More

Oct 15, 2020, 9:00 AM

Full steam ahead as Fred Hutch moves into historic building and expands Seattle campus

It’s full steam ahead for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as the Seattle institution is now fully occupying the… Read More

Oct 13, 2020, 5:24 PM

Experts foresee triumphs and tragedies in worldwide quest for COVID-19 vaccine

The good news is that Operation Warp Speed, the multibillion-dollar effort to develop vaccines for COVID-19, is moving ahead at… Read More

Oct 8, 2020, 5:35 PM

Joint Base Lewis-McChord will test 5G for augmented and virtual reality missions

Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state is participating in a $600 million Pentagon program to test the use of 5G… Read More

Oct 8, 2020, 9:15 AM

UW researchers develop tiny sensors that can be dropped from moths, land safely and collect data

The same University of Washington team that brought us the beetle cam is now taking flight with moths, developing tiny… Read More

Oct 6, 2020, 6:09 PM

How tech-savvy farmers are harnessing big data to tend the fields of the future

In the old days, farmers kept track of their crops’ vital stats in logbooks and on whiteboards — but in… Read More

Sep 30, 2020, 11:16 AM

UW researchers driving around Seattle using Street View-style camera to study response to pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life as we know it in Seattle, and a team from the University of Washington… Read More

Sep 24, 2020, 3:13 PM

Scientists find more potential ingredients for ‘antibody cocktail’ that fights COVID-19

An international research team led by University of Washington scientists has identified two kinds of “ultrapotent human antibodies” that could… Read More

Sep 22, 2020, 8:00 AM

Buzzworthy AI: Microsoft expands its Premonition mosquito-tracking outbreak prediction system

Five years after starting out as an experimental project to see if advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could spot the… Read More

Sep 15, 2020, 3:19 PM

MagniX teams up with Universal Hydrogen for electric airplane conversion project

Redmond, Wash.-based MagniX says it’s partnering with a Los Angeles startup called Universal Hydrogen to retrofit 40-passenger regional aircraft with… Read More