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Stories about scientific discoveries, education, research, and more.

Aerix Drone
May 19, 2017, 1:56 PM

Hobbyist defeats FAA in battle over drone registration, but says the fight’s not over

Recreational drone users no longer have to register their flying machines with the Federal Aviation Administration, thanks to a federal court… Read More

Dreamliner dining table
May 18, 2017, 10:30 AM

Video: Want to fly like a CEO? Rent Deer Jet’s 787 Dreamliner for $70,000 an hour

Now anybody can fly like a VIP: All you have to do to take Deer Jet’s super-elegant 787 Dreamliner for… Read More

Paine Field passenger terminal
May 17, 2017, 10:58 AM

Alaska Airlines plans flights from Everett’s Paine Field to dodge Sea-Tac traffic jam

Bugged by I-5 traffic to Sea-Tac? Alaska Airlines is promising a work-around: The Seattle-based airline says it will start running regularly… Read More

Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric
May 16, 2017, 1:46 PM

‘Genius’ TV show highlights links between Einstein’s love affairs and love of physics

National Geographic Channel’s “Genius” TV series on Albert Einstein spends almost as much time on the famous physicist’s love life as… Read More

Tunnel boring machine
May 12, 2017, 9:34 AM

Warning: Elon Musk posts dizzying views of his first tunnel boring tests in L.A.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, demonstrated once again that he’s serious about boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles. But… Read More

White House graphic
May 11, 2017, 2:16 PM

Trump signs cybersecurity executive order, mandating a move to cloud computing

President Donald Trump today signed a long-awaited executive order aimed at beefing up cybersecurity at federal government agencies – with a… Read More

Fixed-wing drone
May 10, 2017, 5:09 PM

Drone sets a long-distance delivery record

Team Roadrunner, a Nevada-based drone consortium, says it set a record for long-distance drone delivery last week in Texas. The… Read More

Solar roof tiles
May 10, 2017, 12:15 PM

Elon Musk’s Tesla starts taking orders for solar glass roof tiles; delivery due this year

Tesla has started taking orders for traditional-looking glass roof tiles that soak up solar power to generate electricity. Installations are… Read More

Hanford tunnel cave-in
May 9, 2017, 4:00 PM

Tunnel cave-in sparks emergency alert at Hanford; no radiation leaks detected

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation says a 20-foot section of a tunnel system where it stores contaminated material and equipment collapsed today,… Read More

Homo naledi
May 9, 2017, 3:29 PM

Scientists argue that humanlike Homo naledi lived alongside our species in Africa

The paleontologists who discovered a previously unknown line of human ancestors in South Africa say that they’ve found more fossils… Read More

Boeing-built Talon HATE pod on F-15
May 8, 2017, 3:04 PM

Boeing and Air Force demonstrate new airborne networking system for fighter jets

The Boeing Co. and the U.S. Air Force say they’ve shown that a new type of communication pod for F-15… Read More

May 8, 2017, 12:30 PM

UW researchers map widening gap in life expectancy and call for policy changes

A county-by-county survey of U.S. life expectancy reports a 20-year gap between the lows and the highs – a gap that… Read More

FlowLight at work
May 5, 2017, 2:02 PM

FlowLight flashes red when workmates should leave you alone ‘in the zone’

It’s a classic conundrum for coders: Sometimes you get so absorbed in what you’re doing that you hate being interrupted,… Read More

OneRadio signal display
May 4, 2017, 2:13 PM

UW CoMotion spinout OneRadio takes the wraps off its wideband radio receiver

OneRadio Corp. has been working on its dragnet for radio transmissions for two years in stealth mode, but the spinout… Read More

Amazon Alexa phone link
May 2, 2017, 10:56 AM

Amazon patent shows how Alexa-powered devices could turn into extension phones

We’ve known for weeks that Amazon has been working on ways to give Alexa-powered, voice-controlled devices the ability to make… Read More

Aeroflot 777 turbulence
May 1, 2017, 1:45 PM

27 hurt when Aeroflot 777 jet hits clear air turbulence on Moscow-Bangkok flight

More than two dozen passengers on an Aeroflot Boeing 777 jet reportedly sought medical treatment after a scary run-in with… Read More

Elon Musk Boring Company transit tunnel
May 1, 2017, 11:00 AM

Elon Musk digs into his fixation with boring transit tunnels in a non-boring TED talk

When billionaire Elon Musk sat down for a 40-minute TED talk last week in Vancouver, B.C., he could have started… Read More

Digital Construction Platform robot
Apr 26, 2017, 5:59 PM

This robot can build a 50-foot-wide house all by itself in 14 hours, at MIT or on Mars

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a double-armed, laser-guided robot that can basically 3-D print a 50-foot-wide… Read More

Evidence of ancient humans in San Diego
Apr 26, 2017, 10:00 AM

Scientists are wowed by claim that humans lived in North America 130,000 years ago

Scientists say the patterns of breakage in mastodon bones found 25 years ago near a San Diego highway suggest that humans… Read More

Waymo family
Apr 25, 2017, 3:46 PM

Waymo opens self-driving car testing in Phoenix – and scores in Uber legal battle

It’s been a good day on the streets and in the courts for Waymo, the driverless-car company that was spun… Read More

Apr 25, 2017, 10:52 AM

Uber unveils its flying-car team and aims for a 2020 liftoff in Dallas and Dubai

Uber has been talking about flying cars for months, but today the ride-sharing company fleshed out its plan to become a… Read More

Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein in "Genius"
Apr 24, 2017, 6:38 PM

Sex, spies and Einstein on TV: National Geographic’s ‘Genius’ spices up science

There have been plenty of TV documentaries about Albert Einstein, but almost none of them begin with a political assassination… Read More

Mozak brain screenshot
Apr 24, 2017, 1:13 PM

Mozak turns brain cell mapping into video game, thanks to UW and Allen Institute

A game called Mozak is turning thousands of Internet users into “tracers” who help neuroscientists map out the tangled circuitry of brain… Read More

Kitty Hawk Flyer
Apr 24, 2017, 10:59 AM

Flying car? Kitty Hawk’s first working prototype looks more like a flying raft

Kitty Hawk, the hush-hush flying car venture backed by Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page, unveiled the first working prototype of… Read More

Apr 22, 2017, 5:25 PM

Watch ‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye’s epic defense of science at ‘March for Science’ in Washington, D.C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x507ZlDoc-Y Bill Nye “the Science Guy,” the television personality and former Boeing engineer who got his start in Seattle TV sketch comedy, gave a… Read More

Wonder Woman at March for Science
Apr 22, 2017, 3:58 PM

Scenes from the ‘other Washington’: D.C.’s March for Science sparks a chain reaction

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The scenery for the world’s most watched March for Science may have featured the political icons of the… Read More

Lilium VTOL plane
Apr 20, 2017, 8:22 PM

Germany’s Lilium shows off all-electric VTOL airplane – but how far will it go?

Lilium’s all-electric prototype airplane looks impressive as it makes a vertical takeoff and landing in a demonstration video – but… Read More

Brain-computer interface
Apr 20, 2017, 6:55 PM

How Elon Musk and Neuralink aim to meld minds and machines with a ‘Wizard Hat’

Three weeks after word leaked out that billionaire deep-thinker Elon Musk was backing a venture called Neuralink, his detailed vision… Read More

Apr 19, 2017, 11:54 AM

Facebook tests ‘Tether-Tenna’ to beam down the internet from helicopters

Facebook is adding tethered helicopters known as “Tether-Tennas” to its toolkit for widening internet access around the globe, even in… Read More

Drone delivery
Apr 18, 2017, 4:20 PM

Airbus strikes drone delivery deal with Singapore Post; Skyways trial set for 2018

Airbus Helicopters has partnered with Singapore Post for its Skyways drone delivery project, due to begin trials at the National… Read More

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