Science – Page 14 of 69

Mar 16, 2020, 4:05 PM

Seattle techies get the first shots in Kaiser Permanente’s coronavirus vaccine trial

Seattle’s tech community is well-represented in the first group of participants to get their shots in the first U.S. clinical… Read More

Mar 16, 2020, 12:15 PM

AI2 and Microsoft join the White House’s push to enlist AI for the war on coronavirus

A consortium of tech leaders — including Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s charity… Read More

Mar 16, 2020, 11:00 AM

Scientists find that up to 86 percent of coronavirus infections go undetected

Computer modeling of the coronavirus outbreak’s course in China, in the weeks before a travel shutdown was imposed on Jan.… Read More

Mar 15, 2020, 4:44 PM

Officials promise rollout of coronavirus test sites – but warn that there’ll be bottlenecks

Federal public health officials say they’ll start setting up an expanded system of coronavirus test centers this week, but acknowledge… Read More

Mar 14, 2020, 4:44 PM

President Donald Trump tests negative for coronavirus after a week of controversy

President Donald Trump famously downplayed the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak at first, but now he’s been tested to see… Read More

Mar 14, 2020, 12:59 PM

Trump says he’s considering restrictions on domestic travel from coronavirus hotspots

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, restrictions on European travel will be extended to Britain and Ireland on Monday –… Read More

Mar 13, 2020, 2:19 PM

Coronavirus test system will rely on online screening and parking-lot sampling sites

The Trump administration says it will set up a nationwide screening and testing system for coronavirus that relies upon online… Read More

Mar 13, 2020, 9:53 AM

A dozen national science advisers ask publishers to make all coronavirus research available for AI

Science advisers for the White House and 11 other national governments are asking publishers around the world to provide free… Read More

Drive-through coronavirus testing station

Mar 12, 2020, 2:29 PM

Researcher says more coronavirus testing will help manage outbreak, but travel bans? Not so much

A fresh analysis of the numbers behind the coronavirus outbreak suggests that it’s reached the point where more intensive testing… Read More

Mar 11, 2020, 3:16 PM

Report: Amazon and Gates Foundation aim to team up with scientists on home test kits for coronavirus

Amazon Care is offering assistance to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a plan to deliver coronavirus test kits… Read More

Mar 11, 2020, 11:15 AM

White House seeks the aid of tech titans to combat coronavirus and misinformation

The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and other federal agencies today met with Amazon, Microsoft and other… Read More

Mar 11, 2020, 9:07 AM

Coronavirus sleuths say they still see a ‘path forward’ after regulatory snag

Regulators have blocked the Seattle Flu Study’s guerrilla effort to trace the spread of novel coronavirus, citing ethical concerns, but… Read More

Mar 10, 2020, 4:44 PM

How to cope with Seattle’s coronavirus outbreak? Pretend that you’re snowed in

Fresh projections suggest that 1,100 people in Washington state have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and that the outbreak… Read More

Mar 10, 2020, 5:00 AM

Gates-backed Kymeta unveils next-gen satellite antenna for hybrid connectivity

Kymeta Corp., one of the high-tech ventures backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has paired its next-generation satellite antenna with… Read More

Mar 9, 2020, 3:13 PM

Hospital’s drive-through coronavirus tests could be a model for Seattle and the world

A drive-through coronavirus testing site set up at a University of Washington hospital could serve as the model for more… Read More

Mar 9, 2020, 10:43 AM

Verizon teams up with Pacific Northwest National Lab to develop 5G broadband applications

Verizon says it’s bringing its 5G ultra wideband wireless network to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., and will… Read More

Mar 7, 2020, 1:27 PM

Q&A: ‘Cosmos’ author Ann Druyan muses about possible worlds — and what Carl Sagan would do

How many dimensions does the cosmos have? If we’re talking about string theory, it could be 10, or 11, or… Read More

Mar 6, 2020, 2:37 PM

Study says travel restrictions can delay, but can’t defeat a global coronavirus outbreak

Comparisons of the real-world spread of the COV-19 coronavirus with computer models indicate that the travel restrictions imposed by authorities… Read More

Mar 6, 2020, 12:12 PM

UW Medicine says it has extra capacity for coronavirus tests; bottlenecks may lie elsewhere

The University of Washington School of Medicine says its virology lab is now capable of performing 1,000 genetic tests for… Read More

Mar 5, 2020, 7:46 PM

Washington Gov. Inslee cuts coronavirus costs — and meets with VP Mike Pence

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and other state officials say they’re acting to reduce medical costs for people who have to… Read More

Mar 4, 2020, 8:21 PM

A protein found in scorpion venom just might help take the sting out of arthritis

Scientists at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified a mini-protein in scorpion venom that can target joint inflammation… Read More

Mar 4, 2020, 2:31 PM

Health officials advise people to work at home, postpone gatherings to slow spread of coronavirus

As the coronavirus epidemic widens, public health officials in Seattle-King County are recommending that people work at home if possible… Read More

Mar 4, 2020, 1:16 PM

UW Medicine ramps up new coronavirus lab test; Gates Foundation pledges $5M for detection

The University of Washington School of Medicine is moving forward with a new clinical lab test for the COVID-19 coronavirus,… Read More

Mar 3, 2020, 10:13 PM

XR experts see health care as the killer app for VR, AR, MR … or whatever you call it

Virtual reality? Augmented reality? Mixed reality? Today at a Seattle symposium, experts settled on extended reality, or XR, as the… Read More

Mar 3, 2020, 4:39 PM

Boeing unveils proposed design for U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft

Boeing has taken the wraps off its closely held design for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, a new type of… Read More

Mar 3, 2020, 3:50 PM

For the first time, Allen Institute records the activity of a rare, mysterious kind of brain cell

Researchers at Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science have captured the first-ever recording of electrical spikes from von Economo neurons… Read More

Mar 2, 2020, 6:26 PM

Genetic analysis suggests coronavirus infections double every six days, spreading to hundreds

Update for 5:50 p.m. PT May 28: An updated analysis proposes a different scenario for the origins of the U.S.… Read More

Mar 1, 2020, 11:27 PM

GoFly Prize program rewards disruptive tech in personal aviation, but it’s no-go for $1M grand prize

The Boeing-backed GoFly Prize program gave out a $100,000 award during its inaugural fly-off in California, but the $1 million… Read More

Mar 1, 2020, 8:20 AM

From Big Bang to Big Chill, physicist Brian Greene contemplates the beginning (and end) of everything

You might think it’s depressing to contemplate the view that the universe is likely to end in everlasting darkness —… Read More

Feb 27, 2020, 3:35 PM

Robots and their masters take over nuclear plant for DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

SATSOP, Wash. — Amid the ruins of what was meant to be a nuclear power plant, a robot catches a… Read More