Ed Lazowska has played an instrumental role in the growth of the Seattle region’s technology industry, as a driving force behind University of Washington computer science and engineering for more… Read More
New research from the University of Washington and the University of Houston found that gender stereotypes around computer science and engineering for kids can start in first grade and stretch… Read More
The University of Washington is joining three other research universities as part of a National Football League program designed to collect data and help inform the prevention of head injuries… Read More
University of Washington researchers are developing a wearable device to detect opioid overdoses and administer a drug to reverse them. The prototype device injects naloxone, a life-saving antidote, when it… Read More
A new company out of the University of Washington launched this week with technology to sense human gestures, body functions and eye movement. Somalytics has developed ultrathin, flexible sensors… Read More
For decades, the promise of harnessing the power of fusion on a commercial scale to create vast amounts of carbon-free energy has hovered just out of reach for scientists. At… Read More
New funding: Machine learning startup OctoML has raised $85 million in new funding, the Seattle-based company announced Monday. The fresh cash brings the company’s total amount raised to $132 million,… Read More
Dental exams conducted on fossils from more than 200 million years ago suggest that the earliest true tusks were sported by breeds of weird-looking creatures known as dicynodonts. The evidence,… Read More
The climate crisis is a big, scary challenge. But people are working hard to deploy technologies and policies to pull carbon emissions out of our lives and curb the warming.… Read More
— Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. He was previously SVP of global energy at… Read More
When people ask Brian Polagye how difficult is it to extract energy from the ocean, he offers an anecdote. The University of Washington associate professor was at a conference years… Read More
The 2020 U.S. presidential election is almost a year past, but the unfounded allegations that President Biden did not win the vote persist: more than one-third of Americans think Donald… Read More
We are now in the “digital era” of vaccine development, University of Washington researcher Neil King said at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Tuesday. King talked about how to… Read More
Theropods and Triceratops and hadrosaurs, oh my! Seattle’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is making significant additions to its dinosaur holdings, thanks to a summer expedition to Montana’s… Read More
Kids taught to say “Bungo” to get a smart assistant to speed up know they are talking to a robot and don’t use the same tone with humans, according to… Read More
The University of Washington will lead a cohort of researchers from 11 universities as part of a newly founded Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand, or IMOD.… Read More
Yoky Matsuoka is known for her pioneering work in neurorobotics, assisting humans by connecting the central nervous system to the central processing unit. But even in the emerging era of… Read More
Washington’s Mount Rainier is either the snowiest place on Earth, or a close runner up. From records collected over the past century, the average annual snowfall at Rainier’s Paradise area… Read More
Amazon launched an at-home COVID-19 test kit for U.S. consumers last month, broadening the options for people to get tested for the disease. The self-administered test builds on Amazon’s in-house… Read More
The University of Washington and Washington State University are adding artificial intelligence research institutes thanks to $40 million in funding from the National Science Foundation. UW and WSU will house… Read More
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, University of Washington scientist Deborah Fuller did a quick pivot to the new virus. Her skills in vaccine research had been honed for many years… Read More
The United States and its allies took the extraordinary step of attributing cyberattacks that exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server to hackers affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security. In… Read More
The lab of David Baker at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design has released its application to solve one of the toughest problems in the life sciences: how… Read More
With 70% of Washington residents age 16 and older having initiated their COVID-19 vaccine, the pandemic can feel, locally at least, like its grip on our lives has loosened. But… Read More
When Emily Levesque was 2 years old, Halley’s Comet made its most recent close pass to Earth. Her older brother was observing the phenomenon for a school project and the… Read More
Human stem cell scientists have long dreamed of repairing damaged hearts, but have been stymied by research showing that the cells yield irregular heartbeats in laboratory animals. A new genetic engineering… Read More
The University of Washington’s Husky Robotics team was the top-performing U.S. team and third in the world in the 2021 University Rover Challenge earlier this month. The competition, which involved… Read More
University of Washington students this week presented demos of their augmented, virtual and mixed reality apps developed over the last quarter, ranging from a game of virtual dodgeball to a… Read More
The future use of artificial intelligence in medical contexts could be beneficial in improving efficiency, but a new University of Washington research study published in Nature Machine Intelligence found that… Read More
SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station today with more than 7,300 pounds of supplies and science, including an experiment from the University of Washington that… Read More