Urban Waters Surprisingly Rich In Marine Life Finds High-Tech Sampling
Researchers from the University of Washington and NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center found the opposite of what they expected when they used a new scientific method to sample the waters of Puget...
View ArticleYou Could Get Legal Right To Say 'Don't Fly That Drone Over My House!'
The Consumer Technology Association estimates about 1.2 million drones were sold during the just-completed holiday shopping season. Now one state lawmaker from western Washington wants to give you the...
View ArticleWireless Carriers Lobby For Access To 'Street Furniture' In Washington
The next generation of cell technology will feature smaller antennas in more places and will eventually lead to 5G connectivity. Wireless carriers are pushing legislation in Washington state to give...
View ArticleAncient Bed Bugs Discovered In Oregon
Bedbugs have been wreaking havoc in the Northwest for more than 10,000 years. The oldest fossilized evidence of the parasitic insects has been discovered in a cave in southern Oregon.
View ArticleVerizon Demos 5G In Lobbying Push For Access To City Poles
Marches and rallies are a common occurrence at the Washington Capitol. But recently Verizon Wireless staged a different kind of demonstration. It was part of an ongoing lobbying effort to get lawmakers...
View ArticleTri-Cities Prepares To Celebrate Science On Earth Day
The March For Science in Washington, D.C., is happening this Saturday on Earth Day. Smaller science events are happening across the Northwest -- even in conservative southeast Washington.
View ArticleSecrets Of Ancient Glass Could Help Lock Away Hanford Waste
About 90 minutes north of Stockholm lies an ancient defensive hillfort called Broborg. Northwest scientists are digging up and studying pieces of the ancient Swedish fort and trying to figure out how...
View ArticleDrone Maker Outgrowing Columbia Gorge, But HQ And Production Will Stay Put
The cluster of unmanned aircraft systems companies in the Columbia River Gorge led one online journal to dub the rural region east of Portland, "Dronetown, USA."
View ArticleWant To Do More Than Just Watch The Eclipse? Become A Citizen Scientist
This month's total solar eclipse might be the most-studied disappearance of the sun ever , thanks in part to legions of citizen scientists from the Northwest and beyond.
View ArticleWireless Carriers Deploy 'Cell on Wheels' To Boost Coverage In Eclipse Path
With hordes of eclipse chasers expected to pull out their phones to share the memorable experience next week, wireless carriers are deploying temporary mobile cell towers in Oregon and Idaho to boost...
View ArticleEye In Sky To Spy On Wildfires Awaits Green Light From Feds
Two Air National Guard reconnaissance planes were called in Wednesday by the National Interagency Fire Center to help detect and map wildfires in the Pacific Northwest. The twin engine, turboprop RC-26...
View ArticleNo Eclipse Glasses? No Problem
Miss out on eclipse glasses? If so, there’s still plenty of time for a homemade science project. All you need to make a pinhole projector is a cereal box, a pin, a pair of scissors, some aluminum...
View ArticleHigh Altitude Balloons Have Mixed Success Giving View Of Eclipse From Near Space
The solar eclipse is in the books, but the scientific analysis goes on. Teams of high school and college students scrambled Monday afternoon to locate and recover cameras and experimental payloads they...
View ArticleLIGO Detects Another Deep Space Black Hole Event
Scientists in southeast Washington state announced Wednesday that they had detected two black holes revolving around each other and then morphing into one.
View ArticleName That Lomatium: Scientist, Non-Profit Auction Naming Rights To New Plant...
There’s a new plant species in Washington state, but it hasn’t been named yet. And the botanist who discovered it will auction off that opportunity this week.
View ArticleUW Team Wins $500,000 for Conversational Computer
A team from the University of Washington has won a major award for artificial intelligence: the inaugural Alexa Prize from Amazon . The $500,000 award was announced today at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent 2017...
View ArticleNorthwest Company's Internet Antennas Helping Hurricane Victims Get Online
More than two months after Hurricane Maria, some people in Puerto Rico and Dominica still lack internet connectivity . One Pacific Northwest company is helping hurricane victims in the Caribbean get...
View ArticleDefense Contractor Stops Drone Testing After Crash, Fire In Pendleton
Drone testing by a defense contractor has stopped after one of the company's prototypes crashed on Saturday and set off a small wildfire near the Pendleton, Oregon, airport.
View ArticleCentral Washington Jurisdictions Call 'Time Out' On Bitcoin Boom
When the price of one bitcoin soared to almost $20,000 late last year, an influx of entrepreneurs and developers came to the Pacific Northwest in search of cheap hydropower to do bitcoin "mining." But...
View ArticleNew Technology Developed In the Northwest Could Protect Schools From Shootings
In the wake of school shootings like Sandy Hook and Parkland, everyone from school officials and parents to first responders and politicians have looked for ways to protect children from gunfire. Now...
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