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

Coding saves lives, and Fred Hutch Cancer Center wants the next generation to take note 

by Amy Rolph on September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 at 10:33 am

Plenty of high school students plan to make careers out of coding when they graduate from college. And plenty of other students are probably planning careers as cancer-research scientists.  But… Read More

Allen Institute headquarters building
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Allen Institute hits 20 years on the frontier of bioscience, and Seattle will be all aglow

by Alan Boyle on September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 at 4:44 pm

Twenty years after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen created the bioscience research center that bears his name, Seattle’s Allen Institute is still pushing out into new frontiers. But this weekend, the… Read More

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Univ. of Washington researchers use origami folds to control descent of tiny robotic microfliers

by Kurt Schlosser on September 13, 2023September 12, 2023 at 7:57 pm

Tiny robots developed at the University of Washington might look like leaves that could have fallen from a tree, but the control the devices use in getting to the ground… Read More

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"
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Indiana Jones and the Last Movie: Why archaeologists say he’s ancient history

by Alan Boyle on June 29, 2023June 29, 2023 at 10:14 am

As the world’s best-known fictional archaeologist goes after what may be his last ancient mystery in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” new generations of real-life archaeologists are ready… Read More

Ships at Titan sub search site, seen in June 22 satellite image
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Coast Guard takes charge of the Titan sub investigation and debris recovery effort

by Alan Boyle on June 25, 2023June 26, 2023 at 8:06 am

The U.S. Coast Guard says it plans to recover debris from OceanGate’s Titan submersible, which was lost along with its crew during a dive to the Titanic shipwreck, as part… Read More

Titan sub being tested
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Now what? OceanGate sub tragedy sets off a torrent of questions without answers

by Alan Boyle on June 23, 2023June 26, 2023 at 8:05 am

It’s too soon to answer all the questions raised by this week’s loss of OceanGate’s Titan submersible and its five-person crew during their dive to the Titanic shipwreck — but… Read More

University of Washington team detects atomic ‘breathing’ for quantum computing breakthrough

by Richard Yonck on June 23, 2023June 23, 2023 at 9:42 am

Most of us don’t think of atoms as having their own unique vibrations, but they do. In fact, it’s a feature so fundamental to nature’s building blocks that a team… Read More

Seattle tech vets bring India’s renowned Farzi Café to U.S. with new Bellevue restaurant

by Jenise Silva on June 22, 2023October 3, 2023 at 4:02 pm

Two veterans of the Seattle area’s tech industry have opened an Indian restaurant with Michelin-recognized roots in downtown Bellevue, Wash. As investors and franchisees of Farzi Café, this is not… Read More

Aerial view of Titan submersible search site
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Search team confirms hearing ‘banging’ noises at sea but haven’t found Titanic sub

by Alan Boyle on June 21, 2023June 22, 2023 at 10:21 am

Searchers are continuing to hear what they describe as “banging” noises as they monitor underwater sounds for signs of an OceanGate submersible that went missing during a dive to the… Read More

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush chats with GeekWire's Alan Boyle during a 2019 dive in the company's Cyclops submersible.
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Here’s what it’s like to steer an OceanGate submersible … no, not the missing sub

by Alan Boyle on June 20, 2023June 22, 2023 at 10:24 am

The Titan submersible that has gone missing near the wreck of the Titanic isn’t the only sub in OceanGate’s fleet: Back in 2019, the company took me down to the… Read More

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush with Titan submersible during construction
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Search for OceanGate’s missing Titanic sub widens; crew’s names come to light

by Alan Boyle on June 20, 2023June 22, 2023 at 10:25 am

The search for an OceanGate submersible that went out of contact during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic has widened to take in an area of the North… Read More

OceanGate Titan submersible
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OceanGate loses contact with submersible during dive to Titanic; search is underway

by Alan Boyle on June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 at 4:01 pm

OceanGate’s Titan submersible has gone out of contact during one of its dives to the wreck of the Titanic, 12,500 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean. The… Read More

LIGO beam calibration
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LIGO starts its fourth round of searching for gravitational waves and black holes

by Alan Boyle on May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 at 7:25 pm

After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has officially resumed its hunt for the signatures of crashing black… Read More

Human IPS cells imaged by spinning-disk confocal microscope.
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Allen Institute takes on a supporting role in experiment to grow stem cells in space

by Alan Boyle on May 18, 2023May 18, 2023 at 9:53 am

Space: The final frontier … for stem cells? Seattle’s Allen Institute for Cell Science says cells from its collection are going into space for the first time on a private… Read More

Polar Prince at sea
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Icebergs ahead? OceanGate plans to get an early start on this year’s Titanic dives

by Alan Boyle on April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 at 5:15 pm

OceanGate Expeditions, which has conducted dives to the site of the Titanic shipwreck in 2021 and 2022, says it will begin its trips a month earlier this year, in May… Read More

Bill to designate official Washington state dinosaur moves step closer thanks to ancient leg bone

by Kurt Schlosser on February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 at 10:05 am

Lawmakers pondering the relevance of a dinosaur leg bone moved a step closer to designating the unique find as Washington state’s official dinosaur on Monday. A bill to make Suciasaurus… Read More

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania / Quantum
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Get a reality check on quantum computing vs. ‘Quantumania’ in Marvel’s latest movie

by Alan Boyle on February 16, 2023March 7, 2023 at 10:27 am

Ant-Man may be getting small in Marvel’s latest superhero movie — but in the real world, quantum is getting big. Quantum information science is one of the top tech priorities… Read More

Titanic's bow, seen during OceanGate dive
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OceanGate provides a guided video tour of Titanic shipwreck — and gets set to return

by Alan Boyle on February 8, 2023February 8, 2023 at 11:41 am

The latest film about the Titanic doesn’t show Leonardo DiCaprio standing up on the bow’s railings — instead, a single slim filament of coral takes his place as the king… Read More

Illustration: Man with virtual world in hand
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Sci-fi author and scientist team up to write a novel about consciousness and quantum weirdness

by Alan Boyle on January 9, 2023January 30, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Do we each create our own reality? Could different observers create measurably different realities? It’s a fantastical line of thought that has sparked scientific inquiries as well — and now… Read More

Apatosaurus dinosaur illustration

Scientists tangle over a Jurassic mystery: Could the tail of a dinosaur go supersonic?

by Alan Boyle on December 10, 2022December 12, 2022 at 10:27 am

The dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus could certainly do a lot of damage with its long tail — but just how fast could that tail whip? Years ago, a team… Read More

Startup partners with AI2 to help people access information in research studies

by Charlotte Schubert on November 5, 2022November 5, 2022 at 11:32 am

A new startup, Consensus, is partnering with the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) to help make the information in research studies accessible to the general public. Consensus is part… Read More

Inside the Univ. of Washington’s new greenhouse, where a tech upgrade keeps the 6,000 plants happy

by Kurt Schlosser on October 28, 2022October 28, 2022 at 8:21 am

Exposure to plants and nature is said to make humans calmer and more productive, and just feel better overall. That theory will be put to test inside a sprawling new… Read More

Deep-sea life near Titanic
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OceanGate explorers solve a 26-year-old mystery and document life near the Titanic

by Alan Boyle on October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 at 1:01 pm

During an expedition to the Titanic back in 1996, submersible pilot PH Nargeolet noticed a curious sonar blip that was coming from a site near the wreck. Was it a… Read More

Neal Stephenson
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Decades after creating a sci-fi metaverse, Neal Stephenson works on making it real

by Alan Boyle on October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 at 12:12 pm

Microsoft and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, have their own visions for a virtual world called the metaverse — but an alternate, open-source vision from Seattle science-fiction author Neal Stephenson is… Read More

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Beyond the Titanic: OceanGate’s founder contemplates future deep-sea frontiers

by Alan Boyle on October 8, 2022October 8, 2022 at 9:02 am

When it comes to undersea adventures, can anything match seeing the 110-year-old wreck of the Titanic with your own eyes? Stockton Rush, OceanGate Expeditions’ president and chief submersible pilot, intends… Read More

Octopus seen during Ocean Observatories Initiative's Vision '13 expedition
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What octopus intelligence can teach us about artificial intelligence — and aliens

by Alan Boyle on October 4, 2022October 19, 2022 at 10:18 pm

Are intelligent aliens living among us? A newly published novel just might lead you to think so — and in this case, the aliens aren’t visitors from another planet. Instead,… Read More

Titanic anchor
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OceanGate’s high-def 8K video of Titanic wreck reveals previously unseen details

by Alan Boyle on August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 at 7:59 am

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate Expeditions set a new standard this year for documenting the condition of the 110-year-old wreck of the Titanic, thanks to a high-definition 8K video system that was… Read More

Membrane-permeable peptides
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Sneaky synthetic molecules open the way for new types of drugs and a new startup

by Alan Boyle on August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 at 11:01 am

Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered how to create peptide molecules that can slip through membranes to enter cells — and they’ve also created a company with $50… Read More

Titanic's bow in 2021 and 2022
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OceanGate’s explorers update their view of a tattered Titanic ⁠and the life around it

by Alan Boyle on August 21, 2022August 22, 2022 at 10:13 am

After his second yearly series of dives to the Titanic, the CEO and founder of Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says the deterioration of the world’s most famous shipwreck is continuing apace.… Read More

Tsunami advice triggers quake confusion: Stop, drop and cover or head for the hills?

by Lisa Stiffler on July 8, 2022July 9, 2022 at 1:06 pm

News this week that a big earthquake in Seattle could trigger destructive tsunami waves that would hit some shorelines in a matter of minutes left at least one GeekWire reader… Read More

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