More than 100 researchers — including a Nobel laureate — have signed on to a call for the scientific community to follow a set of safety and security standards when… Read More
Despite technology seeping into practically every corner of our lives, computer-related education in Washington is woefully limited. Last year, 8.4% of the Washington’s high school students attending either public or… Read More
A team working on prolonging the lifespan of transplant organs took home the top prize in the 9th annual Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge at the University of Washington. BioLegacy, made up of… Read More
The cherry blossoms at the University of Washington offer a spectacular welcome to spring every year on the school’s Seattle campus. Thursday night, a brightly shining, tech-infused tree in front… Read More
A decade ago, University of Washington oceanographers Julian Sachs and Alex Gagnon were working in a tropical paradise, studying the impacts of climate change on coral reefs surrounding remote islands… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Three decades ago, Cecilia Aragon made aviation history as the first Latina to earn a place on the U.S. Unlimited Aerobatic Team. She went on to write… Read More
The startup spinout machine at the University of Washington keeps on humming. According to CoMotion, the university’s tech transfer office, seven startups have emerged from UW-related research since July of… Read More
An international team of scientists has blazed a new trail for studying how atoms respond to radiation, by tracking the energetic movement of electrons when a sample of liquid water… Read More
Several years ago, scientists at the University of Washington theorized that key ingredients for life could have built up billions of years ago in special kinds of environments known as… Read More
Nothing like a little tech investor college football trash talk before the big game. As the Washington Huskies take on the Michigan Wolverines in the College Football Playoff championship on… Read More
A proposal to build a far-flung set of radio antennas to measure the cosmos is one of 13 far-out concepts to receive seed funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts… Read More
The University of Washington this year expects to break ground on a new building that will anchor an ambitious, innovation-focused redevelopment called Portage Bay Crossing. The project will cover 69… Read More
“The biggest surprise is that AI used to be narrow. … And when you went from one application to the other, you had to redo it all from scratch. What’s… Read More
Thanks to tectonic shifts in technology and training, Olympic-level rowing has come a long way since the University of Washington’s eight-man crew pulled off the ultimate underdog win at the… Read More
The Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the University of Washington have launched a collaboration called the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, with the goal of using genetically modified… Read More
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series profiling “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change. All six will be recognized this week at the GeekWire Gala on… Read More
If you’re asked to imagine a person from North America or a woman from Venezuela, what do they look like? If you give an AI-powered imaging program the same prompts,… Read More
The University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College this week celebrated the opening of Innovation Hall on their campuses located northeast of Seattle. The new $79 million facility will serve… Read More
Inside one of the University of Washington’s computer science buildings on Tuesday evening, students showed off smart earrings that monitor health metrics, and earbuds that measure blood pressure. On the… Read More
What do you get when you put two of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people on artificial intelligence together in the same lecture hall? If the two influencers happen to… Read More
If your noise-canceling headphones are canceling sounds you’d actually prefer to hear, researchers at the University of Washington may have a solution worth listening to. The UW team has developed… Read More
CoMotion, the innovation arm of the University of Washington, is gearing up to move just down the street from its current location to a new space. Later this year CoMotion… Read More
The University of Washington’s troubles with a $340 million IT upgrade is sparking commentary on why software migration projects often go wrong. KIRO reported last week about vendors who haven’t… Read More
Over the next 50 years, will humanity become too attached to the artificial-intelligence agents that dictate the course of our lives? Or is forming a deep attachment the only way… Read More
University of Washington researchers are rolling out another tiny robotic breakthrough, this time in the form of an autonomous device that relies on surrounding light or radio waves to move… Read More
Tiny robots developed at the University of Washington might look like leaves that could have fallen from a tree, but the control the devices use in getting to the ground… Read More
Washington Research Foundation, a Seattle-based nonprofit that funds research and scholarship in Washington state, awarded more than $1.2 million for entrepreneurship training programs at the University of Washington and Washington… Read More
Wildfires and hurricanes are dominating the disaster spotlight, but the threat of a massive earthquake still simmers beneath the surface in the Pacific Northwest. The National Science Foundation today announced… Read More
As swaths of wildlands are being scorched and communities smoked out by another unusually hot, dry summer, researchers in Washington state say there could be a less miserable, environmentally beneficial… Read More
ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies are wowing — and sometimes alarming — users with their human-like abilities to carry on conversations and perform tasks. But they’re also sparking concern… Read More