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

Arx Pax Hyperloop pods
Jan 21, 2016, 1:28 PM

Hoverboard meets Hyperloop: Arx Pax is finding buyers for magnetic levitation tech

The company that brought you a real-life hoverboard from “Back in the Future” wants to levitate you in the Hyperloop… Read More

Stephen Hawking
Jan 19, 2016, 5:46 PM

Stephen Hawking: Mad scientists could kill us all – that’s why we need space colonies

British physicist Stephen Hawking says we need to colonize other worlds because humanity will almost certainly face a disaster on… Read More

NutriRay3D calorie counter
Jan 19, 2016, 2:07 PM

UW’s NutriRay3D smartphone gadget maps your meal and counts the calories

How many calories are on your plate? Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a gizmo that estimates the… Read More

Eric Anderson
Jan 19, 2016, 12:13 PM

Planetary Resources’ Eric Anderson raises $500,000 for mystery venture Idea.com

The latest big idea from Seattle tech entrepreneur Eric Anderson is … Idea.com. He has raised $500,000 to support the idea,… Read More

Amazon delivery drone
Jan 18, 2016, 12:20 PM

Amazon Prime Air’s drone plan still leaves key questions unanswered

How much will it cost to get a 30-minute drone delivery from Amazon Prime Air? A newly published interview with… Read More

Airbus H130 helicopter
Jan 18, 2016, 10:54 AM

Airbus and Uber will preview on-demand helicopter rides at Sundance Film Festival

Independent films aren’t the only things that’ll be previewed at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this week: Airbus Group… Read More

Jan 17, 2016, 6:35 PM

Twitter truce: Jeff Bezos takes the high road, offers kudos to Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Rocket launches can sometimes turn into flame wars, as shown by last year’s Twitter tug of war between space-minded billionaires Jeff… Read More

Adam Clark
Jan 17, 2016, 8:00 AM

Boeing engineers prove you don’t have to golf to design a better golf club

EVERETT, Wash. – When experts at Callaway Golf sought Boeing’s help to improve their golf clubs’ aerodynamics, Boeing turned to a special… Read More

3-D printed car
Jan 16, 2016, 2:15 PM

Airbus Ventures dips into $150 million fund to back 3-D printing at Local Motors

Airbus Ventures, the European aerospace giant’s Silicon Valley spin-off, says the first investment from its $150 million venture fund is going… Read More

Maria Cantwell
Jan 15, 2016, 4:00 PM

Senators join forces in campaign to close America’s Arctic icebreaker gap

Two U.S. senators from opposite sides of the aisle – Washington Democrat Maria Cantwell and Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski – teamed up… Read More

Jan 15, 2016, 12:02 PM

Women in astronomy use #astroSH hashtag to share stories of sexual harassment

The hashtag #astroSH is being used on Twitter this week to highlight stories from women who say they have been sexually… Read More

Rubio and Trump
Jan 13, 2016, 5:02 PM

Prediction markets sense a disturbance in the presidential campaign force

Although Donald Trump has long dominated coverage of the GOP presidential campaign, electoral prediction markets have been favoring Marco Rubio instead.… Read More

Apollo 17 salute
Jan 12, 2016, 7:22 PM

Space ventures get shout-outs in State of the State Address – and State of the Union

Even though they happened far from the Evergreen State, last year’s Pluto flyby and the rocket landings accomplished by Blue… Read More

Mirai vehicle with Kymeta antenna system
Jan 12, 2016, 4:00 AM

A satellite antenna on your car: Toyota and Kymeta aim to make it so

Redmond-based Kymeta Corp. and Toyota took the wraps off their collaboration on a satellite antenna system that can send data… Read More

Image: Kymeta antenna
Jan 11, 2016, 3:12 PM

Bill Gates and other investors give $62M boost to Kymeta satellite antenna venture

Kymeta Corp., the Redmond-based satellite antenna venture backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, says it has closed a $62 million… Read More

Image: Powerball math
Jan 11, 2016, 1:58 PM

Powerball math mistake fires up the Internet as $1.4 billion drawing nears

The math behind this week’s upcoming $1.4 billion Powerball drawing boggles the mind, but at least a few minds were… Read More

Image: Illumina sequencer
Jan 11, 2016, 11:35 AM

Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos invest in Grail, Illumina’s $100M cancer testing venture

One of the giants of gene sequencing, Illumina, has spun off a new $100 million company called Grail to create… Read More

Image: Tesla Summon in action
Jan 11, 2016, 9:30 AM

Tesla owners, try this at home: ‘Summon’ your car to pick you up, drop you off

Over the weekend, Tesla car owners picked up a new superpower: A feature called Summon can command the Model S… Read More

Jan 11, 2016, 9:17 AM

Life science investment group Accelerator Corp. backs two New York startups

Fresh off a $62.8 million round of funding, Seattle-based life sciences investment company Accelerator Corp. is backing two new biotech startups. Earlier this… Read More

EHang 184 drone
Jan 8, 2016, 11:00 AM

Chinese company unveils a drone so big it can carry a human – but is it a drone?

Look! Up in the air! It’s a drone, it’s a plane, it’s … Super-Quadcopter! Droves of drones were unveiled this… Read More

Living Ink pen
Jan 7, 2016, 6:50 PM

Living Ink updates invisible messages with morphing algae for Kickstarter project

Remember invisible ink? You could write a secret message with the stuff, watch your words disappear, then make them magically… Read More

Image: Anthropocene
Jan 7, 2016, 12:02 PM

Signs of the Anthropocene Age: How we’re leaving our mark on the geological record

Millions of years from now, could alien geologists pinpoint a distinct time when humans changed the world? An international team… Read More

Iceman sampled
Jan 7, 2016, 11:00 AM

Did 5,300-year-old Iceman have an ulcer? Mummy’s gut bacteria surprise scientists

An analysis of the stomach contents from a 5,300-year-old European mummy known as Ötzi the Iceman has turned up a double surprise,… Read More

XR16 golf club
Jan 6, 2016, 5:29 PM

Why Boeing helped Callaway design its high-tech XR16 golf clubs

What do aerospace and golf have in common? For the Boeing Co. and Callaway Golf, it’s a new line of… Read More

Image: Diphoton event
Jan 6, 2016, 3:10 PM

LHC photon readings hint at Higgs boson’s big brother, but it’s too early to tell

The Higgs boson is the biggest find of the century in particle physics, but for the past few weeks, physicists at… Read More

Parrot Disco
Jan 6, 2016, 1:30 PM

FAA says 181,000 sign up for drone registration; new B4UFLY app released

The Federal Aviation Administration’s chief says he’s happy to see about 181,000 Internet users register recreational drones in less than three weeks’… Read More

Connected ship
Jan 6, 2016, 7:55 AM

Kymeta and Panasonic make a deal for shipshape, lightweight satellite antennas

Redmond-based Kymeta Corp. and Panasonic Avionics Corp. are setting sail on a new partnership to put Kymeta’s lightweight, flat-panel antennas… Read More

Snapdragon-based drone
Jan 5, 2016, 1:14 PM

There’s a new drone in town: Social-friendly Ying, from Qualcomm, Tencent and Zerotech

China’s largest Internet service portal, Tencent, is teaming up with chipmaker Qualcomm and drone-maker Zerotech to field the Ying drone,… Read More

Editas' Feng Zhang with student
Jan 4, 2016, 8:48 PM

Gates-backed Editas Medicine files for IPO, marking CRISPR gene-editing milestone

Editas Medicine filed the paperwork for an initial public offering today, marking a first for the growing number of private… Read More

Firefly drone
Jan 4, 2016, 12:15 PM

Intel goes deeper into drones with acquisition of Germany’s Ascending Technologies

Intel says it’s acquiring Ascending Technologies, its German partner in the drone business, in a deal that demonstrates how quickly robotic… Read More

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