Science – Page 23 of 69

Apr 12, 2019, 10:20 AM

Vote for AI Innovation of the Year: Seattle’s artificial intelligence clout featured at the GeekWire Awards

Artificial intelligence is one of the Seattle area’s fastest-growing tech frontiers, so it only makes sense for the field to… Read More

Apr 11, 2019, 11:16 PM

Full findings from NASA ‘Twins Study’ raise more questions about long stints in space

Ten research teams today shared comprehensive scientific results from an unprecedented experiment to gauge the health differences that developed between… Read More

Apr 5, 2019, 4:32 PM

OceanGate gears up for deep-sea dives with a crew that’ll pay for the privilege

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate is heading back down to the Bahamas next week to practice deep-sea dives of Titanic proportions with… Read More

Apr 5, 2019, 2:00 PM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Celebrating the first man in space and exploring underwater artifacts

More than 60 years ago, the world got serious about exploring space. The global fascination with the great beyond led… Read More

Apr 5, 2019, 1:34 PM

Boeing will cut back temporarily on 737 MAX production and review design process

Boeing will reduce its monthly production rate for its single-aisle 737 jets from 52 to 42, starting in mid-April, CEO… Read More

Apr 4, 2019, 3:35 PM

Boeing vows to take all necessary safety steps after Ethiopia issues preliminary 737 MAX crash report

Boeing executives said today that they would take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of the company’s 737 MAX… Read More

Apr 3, 2019, 10:39 AM

Ethiopian jet’s data record deepens concern about 737 MAX safety procedures

Readings from the recorders recovered from last month’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX jet reportedly suggest that… Read More

Apr 2, 2019, 6:52 PM

Why that amazing April Fools’ video of an Amazon blimp got taken way too seriously

A video clip showing a drone-dispatching airship emblazoned with the Amazon logo is a powerful contender for April Fool’s joke… Read More

Apr 2, 2019, 7:30 AM

Planetary Resources’ veteran engineers launch First Mode to target wider frontiers

Planetary Resources was assimilated into the ConsenSys blockchain venture months ago, but a troop of engineers who used to work… Read More

Apr 1, 2019, 10:44 PM

Eyebrow-raising extinction study goes public, but co-author says it’s just the start

After days of puzzling over secondhand reports, anyone with an internet connection can now read a research paper about a… Read More

Mar 29, 2019, 8:16 PM

Scientists claim discovery of a fossilized killing field from the day the dinosaurs died

First, there was a violent shock. Then, there was the roar of a 30-foot-high wave of water, throwing fish onto… Read More

Mar 29, 2019, 3:15 PM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Black Girls Code workshops, Pluto’s planetary debate, FFA’s Champion Awards, and more

— Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching girls of color ages 7-17 about computer programming and technology, is… Read More

Mar 29, 2019, 10:57 AM

Boston Dynamics’ robotic ostrich can ‘handle’ warehouse box-stacking tasks

Boston Dynamics’ latest robo-creature may be cuter than its creepy robot dogs, but its potential application could nevertheless make warehouse… Read More

Mar 28, 2019, 3:33 PM

Bill Gates casts an enthusiastic vote for bill to accelerate nuclear energy research

If dollars were votes, newly reintroduced legislation aimed at boosting nuclear energy innovation and advanced reactors would be a winner,… Read More

Mar 28, 2019, 10:58 AM

Turing Award honors a different kind of AI network with ‘Nobel Prize of computing’

The three recipients of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2018 Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” are… Read More

Lumotive's William Colleran and Gleb Akselrod

Mar 27, 2019, 7:21 PM

How Lumotive will put metamaterials in self-driving cars, with Bill Gates’ backing

BELLEVUE, Wash. — A succession of spinouts supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken an unorthodox technology known as… Read More

Mar 27, 2019, 4:40 PM

Hearings on Boeing 737 MAX crashes focus on certification and pilot training

Were airline pilots adequately trained on a catastrophic scenario involving the automatic flight control system for Boeing’s 737 MAX airplanes?… Read More

Mar 26, 2019, 8:48 PM

LIGO and Virgo detectors get in sync for gravitational-wave hunt that’ll last a year

Physicists won’t be fooling around on April 1 at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Washington state and Louisiana, or… Read More

Mar 26, 2019, 7:00 AM

Boeing-backed GoFly Prize puts 5 personal flying machines in spotlight, with fly-off ahead

Five teams from around the world have risen to new heights in the GoFly Prize competition, a $2 million-plus contest… Read More

Mar 26, 2019, 6:00 AM

MagniX and Vancouver’s Harbour Air team up to test all-electric plane for B.C. flights

Two Pacific Northwest companies — MagniX, an electric propulsion venture headquartered in Redmond, Wash.; and Harbour Air Seaplanes, an airline… Read More

Mar 25, 2019, 2:09 PM

Microsoft will be adding AI ethics to its standard checklist for product release

Microsoft will “one day very soon” add an ethics review focusing on artificial-intelligence issues to its standard checklist of audits… Read More

Mar 25, 2019, 10:57 AM

Report: Optional safety features for Boeing 737 MAX jets will be offered for free

Two optional safety features that might help pilots head off a scenario that’s at the heart of investigations into two… Read More

Mar 22, 2019, 1:14 PM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Jobs in space; a critical look at Facebook; women executives and pay equity

Space has always fascinated us geeks. Thanks to Star Wars, Star Trek and countless other science fiction media, gazing at… Read More

Mar 22, 2019, 10:58 AM

Report: Indonesia’s Garuda airline seeks to cancel 737 MAX order in wake of crashes

Indonesia’s national airline, Garuda Indonesia, is saying it wants to cancel an order for 49 Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets,… Read More

Mar 21, 2019, 6:00 AM

Microsoft and University of Washington demonstrate automated DNA data storage

DNA data storage holds the promise of putting huge amounts of information into a test tube — but who wants… Read More

Mar 20, 2019, 5:34 PM

Acting Pentagon chief is facing an ethics investigation over charges of Boeing bias

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who was a veteran Boeing executive before going to the Pentagon, is facing an ethics… Read More

Mar 19, 2019, 7:49 PM

What will quantum computing do for us? Programmers, policymakers share ideas

Quantum computer scientist Krysta Svore has a dream. In her dream, she arrives at the week’s Northwest Quantum Nexus Summit… Read More

Mar 19, 2019, 4:59 PM

Transportation Department plans to audit certification process for Boeing 737 MAX

In the wake of two catastrophic crashes that may have had a common cause, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao today opened… Read More

Mar 19, 2019, 10:57 AM

White House starts to flesh out AI research plan — and raises its profile with AI.gov

For months, the White House has been talking up artificial intelligence as one of America’s most important tech frontiers. Now… Read More

Mar 19, 2019, 7:21 AM

Jeff Bezos puts that robotic dragonfly at center stage in video clip from Amazon’s MARS conference

Find someone who looks at you the way Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looks at the robotic dragonfly that’s buzzing around… Read More