Science – Page 56 of 69

Jul 31, 2016, 9:17 AM

How aerodynamics saved skydiver Luke Aikins during parachute-less landing feat

Kids, don’t try this at home: Veteran skydiver Luke Aikins made an amazing injury-free landing without a parachute on national television… Read More

Jul 31, 2016, 9:17 AM

Out of this world! Seattle sisters launch their Loki Lego 2.0 balloon craft past 100,000 feet

Update: A new YouTube video, below, captures the preparation and launch of Loki Lego Launcher 2.0. The girls have also… Read More

Jul 30, 2016, 8:40 AM

Neither Trump nor Clinton is addressing the biggest challenge to jobs: automation

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both promising to bring good-paying jobs back to America, but analysts say neither… Read More

Jul 29, 2016, 7:29 AM

Seattle girls who captivated nation with homemade spacecraft ready to launch again — with new science goals, new Star Wars hero on board

The Seattle sisters who captivated GeekWire’s audience and earned an invitation to the White House after launching a homemade craft… Read More

Jul 28, 2016, 10:08 PM

‘I believe in science’: Hillary Clinton wows geeks with Democratic convention speech

Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention tonight may not have been rated as highly as… Read More

Jul 28, 2016, 12:53 PM

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos joins tech titans on Pentagon’s innovation advisory board

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is joining the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, a 15-member panel that’s meant to help the Pentagon… Read More

Jul 26, 2016, 12:57 PM

This Seattle biotech startup just secured funding to tackle the Zika virus

Seattle-based biotech startup Kineta announced today that it has received an undisclosed amount of funding to expand research that could… Read More

Jul 25, 2016, 5:33 PM

Solar Impulse ends first solar-powered flight around the world in Abu Dhabi

Solar Impulse’s history-making 22,000-mile flight around the world ended tonight with a solar-powered landing in the dark in Abu Dhabi, where it… Read More

Jul 23, 2016, 4:29 PM

Solar Impulse plane takes off from Egypt on final leg of round-the-world odyssey

The Swiss-built Solar Impulse 2 airplane rose into the skies over Cairo, Egypt, tonight to finish off its 16-month, 22,000-mile, fuel-free… Read More

Starship Enterprise in "Star Trek Beyond"

Jul 22, 2016, 10:59 AM

5 tech tidbits from ‘Star Trek Beyond’

Spoiler Alert! This post doesn’t reveal any major plot twists, but it does explore some new twists seen in “Star Trek Beyond.”… Read More

Jul 21, 2016, 5:15 PM

Experts weigh the promise – and the politics – behind the Internet of Things

When U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene and a Republican colleague set up a congressional caucus focusing on the Internet of Things,… Read More

Jul 21, 2016, 3:56 PM

Facebook shares video from the first flight of its Aquila solar-powered internet drone

After more than a year of development, Facebook unveiled a video showing the first flight of its full-scale Aquila drone, which… Read More

Jul 20, 2016, 6:00 PM

Elon Musk’s new Tesla master plan: Self-driving shared cars, a Semi and personal energy utilities

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has just shared his once-secret master plan for the electric-car company, which he now casts as… Read More

Jul 20, 2016, 3:13 PM

New brain map doubles the number of distinct areas in the human cortex

The number of separate domains recognized in the human cortex has doubled, thanks to a newly developed map based on functional… Read More

Jul 19, 2016, 4:12 PM

Play Pokémon Go on Microsoft HoloLens augmented-reality headset? Make it so!

Millions of Pokémon Go players are peering into smartphones to look for animated characters in an augmented-reality world, but what… Read More

Jul 19, 2016, 12:35 PM

What a fish story: UW professor has the pictures to prove that he’s digitizing every species

Forget the one that got away. A University of Washington professor is concentrating on the ones he can get his… Read More

Jul 18, 2016, 3:26 PM

A new low in digital data storage: Information encoded in chlorine atoms

Researchers have stored and read out a kilobyte’s worth of data using the world’s smallest hard disk – a speck of… Read More

Jul 18, 2016, 1:06 PM

Boeing bans Pokémon Go game-playing at work – but don’t take it personally, Pikachu

Mark off the Boeing Co. as one more place where you shouldn’t be playing Pokémon Go, the monster-catching game that’s been… Read More

Jul 18, 2016, 11:05 AM

Seattle-area 8th graders give U.S. another victory in International Rocketry Challenge in London

A team of eighth graders from Odle Middle School in Bellevue, Wash., captured first place at the International Rocketry Challenge… Read More

Jul 15, 2016, 6:25 PM

Founders Day: Boeing’s centennial party blends the old and the new

The Boeing Company pulled out all the stops today to celebrate its 100th birthday – from the opening bell at the… Read More

Jul 15, 2016, 9:14 AM

The $10 million molecule: Juno Therapeutics’ acquisition of RedoxTherapies could improve cancer treatment

Seattle-based Juno Therapeutics has acquired RedoxTherapies for $10 million, to secure exclusive rights to a molecule that may provide a new… Read More

Jul 14, 2016, 5:34 PM

How your future car’s virtual driver will take advantage of computing in the cloud

The car of the future may well be controlled by a certified virtual driver that relies on the cloud for… Read More

Jul 14, 2016, 11:34 AM

Juno Therapeutics resumes cancer clinical trial after removing suspect drug

Seattle-based Juno Therapeutics says it’s resuming a clinical trial of its immunotherapy treatment, a week after the Food and Drug… Read More

Jul 13, 2016, 2:14 PM

Congress OKs funding for FAA, plus new measures on airport security and drones

The U.S. Senate today gave final congressional approval to a measure that authorizes funding for the Federal Aviation Administration through September 2017 –… Read More

Jul 13, 2016, 1:00 PM

Genes from monkey brains shed light on autism and other neurological mysteries

A project led by Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science has mapped out how genes get fired up in key areas… Read More

Jerome Lecoq and Kate Roll at Allen Brain Observatory

Jul 13, 2016, 10:00 AM

Allen Brain Observatory peers into the minds of mice as they watch movies

The Allen Brain Observatory is open for business, revealing what’s running through the mind of a mouse as it sees patterns… Read More

Jul 12, 2016, 10:52 PM

Solar Impulse gets a pyramid photo op in Egypt, prepares for round-the-world finale

After a photo op with the Great Pyramids, the Solar Impulse 2 airplane touched down in Egypt for the last… Read More

Jul 10, 2016, 10:12 PM

Fuel-free Solar Impulse airplane heads for its last round-the-world layover in Egypt

Sixteen months after it started, the fuel-free Solar Impulse 2 airplane took off before dawn Monday for what’s expected to… Read More

Jul 8, 2016, 2:44 PM

Dengue fever calling: Researchers forecast disease outbreaks with hotline traffic

Researchers from the University of Washington and elsewhere say they can forecast the rise and fall of dengue fever outbreaks as much… Read More

Jul 8, 2016, 1:16 PM

Naveen Jain’s BlueDot innovation factory fills out $10.1 million funding round

BELLEVUE, Wash. – BlueDot, the “innovation factory” founded by serial tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain, says it has completed a $10.1… Read More