Science – Page 32 of 69

Jun 13, 2018, 7:35 PM

Elon Musk’s Boring Company wins the nod from Chicago for airport express link

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Boring Company is getting the go-ahead to build a multibillion-dollar express transit system between downtown Chicago… Read More

Antarctic ice loss contribution to global sea level

Jun 13, 2018, 6:45 PM

Warming warning: West Antarctic ice loss rate tripled in 25 years, study shows

An analysis of satellite data collected since 1992 suggests that ocean-driven melting has led to a tripling in the rate… Read More

Jun 13, 2018, 5:09 PM

Sleuth solves Puget Sound UFO mystery

Was it an airplane? A missile? An honest-to-goodness unidentified flying object? For a couple of days, a mystery swirled around… Read More

Jun 13, 2018, 4:53 PM

TLDR: Uber could use AI to identify drunk riders, big bets on energy storage, LEGO Seattle

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, check… Read More

Jun 12, 2018, 3:18 PM

Backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Breakthrough Energy Ventures places first bets on power storage

Eighteen months after its founding, the $1 billion Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund’s first investments have been revealed, and they both… Read More

Jun 12, 2018, 11:42 AM

Elon Musk announces 9 percent job cut at Tesla in ‘difficult’ drive for profitability

Just days after promising he’d make Tesla profitable within months, CEO Elon Musk announced today that 9 percent of the… Read More

Jun 12, 2018, 10:55 AM

National Academies call for systemwide steps to fight sexual harassment in science

A newly published report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine calls for dramatic steps to curb sexual… Read More

Jun 9, 2018, 2:41 PM

Flame on! Elon Musk says Boring Company delivers its first ‘Not-a-Flamethrower’

Billionaire tech guru Elon Musk showed off pictures of the Boring Company’s first commercial flamethrowers being distributed to lines of… Read More

Jun 8, 2018, 1:41 PM

U.S. makes its pitch to wrest the world’s supercomputer top spot from China

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory staked its claim to retake the lead from China in the… Read More

Jun 6, 2018, 5:23 PM

Boeing HorizonX joins in $5M funding round for Kittyhawk drone venture

Boeing says its HorizonX venture capital arm is investing in Kittyhawk, a San Francisco startup that provides end-to-end software solutions… Read More

Jun 6, 2018, 3:02 PM

Washington state makes its pitch for Boeing’s future 797 jet … with science!

Boeing hasn’t yet declared whether it will build a new breed of midsize passenger jet — variously known as the New… Read More

Jun 5, 2018, 7:51 PM

What caused 2014’s bird die-off on the Pacific coast? Scientists blame the Blob

Researchers have untangled the mystery behind a die-off that felled hundreds of thousands of tough seabirds known as Cassin’s auklets… Read More

Jun 5, 2018, 5:52 PM

Tesla turns back challenges at annual meeting, and Elon Musk bares his soul

Tesla shareholders at today’s annual meeting swatted down challenges to billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who laid out an admittedly optimistic… Read More

Jun 4, 2018, 1:57 PM

Boeing goes vertical and partners with Safran on auxiliary power units for planes

Boeing and Safran have set up a joint venture to design, build and service auxiliary power units for airplanes, marking… Read More

Jun 4, 2018, 11:39 AM

Physicists at CERN add a new top-quark twist to tangled tale of the Higgs boson

News Brief: Experiments at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider have produced hard-to-come-by evidence of interactions between the Higgs boson and top… Read More

Jun 4, 2018, 10:40 AM

Boeing partners with Degreed.com as part of $100M workforce education investment

Boeing is launching new educational initiatives to follow through on its pledge to spend $100 million of its federal tax… Read More

Jun 4, 2018, 7:00 AM

Team Saffron enters the home stretch in competition for Women’s Safety XPRIZE

Students representing the Global Innovation Exchange are nearing the finish line in a competition to create wearable sensors that can… Read More

Jun 2, 2018, 10:54 AM

Washington Hyperloop unveils pod racer with thrusters for SpaceX’s next contest

The Washington Hyperloop team is counting on the third time being the charm. But it’s not just a question of… Read More

May 31, 2018, 10:52 AM

Kavli Prizes go to pioneers of gene editing, neuroscience and astrochemistry

Three inventors of the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 technique for editing DNA are among the recipients of this year’s Kavli Prizes, which… Read More

May 30, 2018, 10:46 AM

Boeing HorizonX invests in Agylstor to boost ruggedized data storage systems

The latest investment by Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm is going to Agylstor, a Silicon Valley startup that’s developing ruggedized… Read More

May 29, 2018, 3:59 PM

Amazon patent covers how to signal a delivery drone (and how it signals back)

For an earlier generation, one of the sweetest sounds of summer was the music coming from an ice-cream truck. For… Read More

May 28, 2018, 10:35 AM

Paul Allen marks Memorial Day with a look back at deep-sea gravesites he helped find

It’s traditional to revisit the gravesites of America’s fallen warriors on Memorial Day, but billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen is adding… Read More

May 23, 2018, 1:44 PM

Elon Musk berates media critics and vows to create ‘Pravda’ news rating website

Elon Musk’s Tesla electric-car and power company has been getting some bad press lately, and today the tech billionaire pushed… Read More

May 22, 2018, 5:30 PM

Grail raises $300M for cancer detection tools, boosting total investment to $1.5B

News Brief: Grail, a biotech company with early backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says… Read More

May 18, 2018, 10:59 AM

Hawaii’s erupting Kilauea volcano sparks memories 38 years after Mount St. Helens

The ash plumes, red alerts and evacuations caused by the Kilauea volcano’s eruption are stirring up wonder and worry in… Read More

May 18, 2018, 12:44 AM

L.A. tunnel rides for $1: Six takeaways from Elon Musk’s Boring Company talk

If billionaire Elon Musk’s tunnel vision comes to pass, travelers will be able to zip beneath Los Angeles through an… Read More

May 17, 2018, 5:37 PM

Worried about fake news? Get ready for the rise of fake humans that sound just like us

We have heard the voice of our future AI overlord — and it’s making hair appointments for us. Last week, Google… Read More

May 17, 2018, 12:47 PM

Elon Musk sweetens the pitch for his tunnel vision with space travel (and candy)

Billionaire Elon Musk is talking up his tunnel-boring vision at a public forum in Los Angeles tonight, and hinting that… Read More

May 17, 2018, 9:00 AM

How a robotic system that grows human organoids can help save real live humans

Good news, everybody: Robots can now create human mini-organs from stem cells. What could possibly go wrong? The method may… Read More

May 16, 2018, 10:17 AM

OceanGate reschedules Titanic sub trips for 2019 due to testing snags in Bahamas

OceanGate is putting its underwater trips to the Titanic shipwreck on hold for a year, due to difficulties encountered during… Read More