Kelp is cool. Some varieties of the ribbony seaweed can grow up to two feet a day. They form “marine skyscrapers” that stretch up to 45 feet from the seafloor… Read More
We’ve all indulged in a little voyeuristic spying and exploration using Google Maps’ Street View, peering at homes and other landmarks. Brian Footen is creating a similar experience for shorelines… Read More
Puget Sound — Washington’s inland sea — is a mysterious place. It’s the southern-most fjord in the lower 48 states. It’s fed by rivers that create shallow, mucky tideflats. In… Read More
POSSESSION SOUND, Wash. — Steering a five-person submersible is like playing a video game, except for the fact that you’re piloting a nine-ton piece of hardware at watery depths that… Read More
Worrying about your own property during an earthquake would be a natural reaction, but what if your home could help in an experiment before an earthquake, to better understand how… Read More
Dr. Beth Ripley would like you to know that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is way more innovative than you probably think. But she’s biased — both as a… Read More
The Nature Conservancy is teaming up with Microsoft to bring machine learning and other tech innovations to the environmental group’s online mapping tools. The interactive maps are used for numerous… Read More
Seattle and its surrounding counties added 86,320 new residents between April 2015 and 2016, marking the region’s biggest population gain this century, fueled in large part by the region’s technology… Read More
Forces of nature greater than the tech industry could be responsible for Seattle’s next population boom. That’s if you believe the “climate refugee” (or perhaps more accurately climate migrant) theory… Read More
It’s only been two weeks since Amazon launched its one-hour delivery service in Seattle, but it’s hard to consider it any sort of test. The territory Amazon is now serving has… Read More