After years of preparation, a tiny satellite built by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø students is scheduled to launch early Saturday, Nov. 2, from a NASA flight facility in Virginia. The launch will be broadcast live on NASA TV.
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ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have found that the third-party genealogy site GEDmatch is vulnerable to multiple kinds of security risks.
This week a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø team is releasing a robotic surfboard to explore the surface ocean around Antarctica.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have developed a new smart speaker skill that lets a device use white noise to both soothe sleeping babies and monitor their breathing and movement.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø astrobiologist Rory Barnes and co-authors have created software that simulates multiple aspects of planetary evolution across billions of years, with an eye toward finding and studying potentially habitable worlds.
Several ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø schools and offices will team up to research how organizational practices can affect the interagency collaboration needed to keep the “internet of things” — and institutional systems — safe and secure.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø security researchers have created ShareAR, a toolkit that lets developers build collaborative and interactive features into AR apps without sacrificing their users’ privacy and security.
The U.S. Geological Survey announced $10.4 million in funding to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, based at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, to support the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system. Some $7.3 million of the two-year funding total will go to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have used machine learning to develop a new system that can monitor factory and warehouse workers and tell them how ergonomic their jobs are in real time.
New research from astronomers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø uses the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 planetary system as a kind of laboratory to model not the planets themselves, but how the coming James Webb Space Telescope might detect and study their atmospheres, on the path toward looking for life beyond Earth.
Researchers at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and UCLA have developed an artificial intelligence system that could help pathologists read biopsies more accurately, and lead to better detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.
In recent years, physicians at Seattle Children’s Hospital have worked with ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members in design to come up with a better, safer, more reliable way to order and use drugs on an operating room’s anesthesia cart.
This Friday, teams of 5th- through 12th-grade students from across Washington state will complete a challenge in Kane Hall to mimic the 1969 Apollo moon landing, using drones and Lego robots.
Recent notable books by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members explore how the U.S. government has historically used credit to create opportunity, how “reproductive slavery” has left lasting ramifications and how technology design benefits from human values.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers created a method for two people help a third person solve a task using only their minds.
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office selected two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professors in the Department of Chemistry and the Clean Energy Institute to receive nearly $1.5 million in funding for two separate endeavors in solar photovoltaic research. The projects are led by Daniel Gamelin, director of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-based Molecular Engineering Materials Center, and David Ginger, chief scientist at the CEI and co-director of the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry and Technology, a partnership between the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
A roundup of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø talents and presentations in AbSciCon2019, the national conference on astrobiology — the search for life in the universe — to be held in Bellevue, June 24-28.
The subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus probably has higher than previously known concentrations of carbon dioxide and hydrogen and a more Earthlike pH level, possibly providing conditions favorable to life, according to new research from planetary scientists at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they’re asleep — all without touching them. The tool is essentially an app for a smart speaker or a smartphone that allows it to detect the signature sounds of cardiac arrest and call for help.
Of the many papers and presentations scheduled for AbSciCon2019, the conference on astrobiology and the search for life in space happening in Bellevue the week of June 24, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Dominic Sivitilli’s is perhaps unique — he’ll discuss his research into how octopuses “think.”
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have figured out how to take a person from a 2D photo or a work of art and make them run, walk or jump out of the frame. The system also allows users to view the animation in three dimensions using augmented reality tools.
Academics will gather May 31 at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø with policymakers, entrepreneurs, and representatives of corporations, foundations and nonprofits for The xTech + Impact 2019 Summit, a daylong seminar exploring the role of exponential technology and its impact on society.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have defined for the first time what children mean when they say technology is “creepy.”
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of paper and the phone’s microphone and speaker.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and its Clean Energy Institute named Kevin Klustner executive director of the Center for Advanced Materials and Clean Energy Technologies, or CAMCET. When complete, CAMCET will be a 340,000-square-foot building that will bring together ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø scientists and engineers with industry, civic and nonprofit partners to accelerate clean energy solutions for a healthy planet.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers conducted in-depth interviews to learn why we compulsively check our phones.
Engineering Discovery Days is a yearly event that invites Washington state fourth- through eighth-graders to have fun leaning about STEM with the College of Engineering.
A new space race is underway, characterized by the intersecting trends of democratization, commercialization and militarization. Saadia Pekkanen, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professor of international relations, is lead guest editor for a group of essays addressing such issues and more published online this month in the American Journal of International Law.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø celebrated the opening of an esports center with a ribbon cutting ceremony April 18.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø celebrated the opening of an esports center with a ribbon cutting ceremony April 18.
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have developed a robotic system that can feed people who need someone to help them eat.
A new website from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom, the duo behind the popular “Calling BS” class, asks viewers to choose which of two realistic face photos is real and which is a complete fake.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø today marked the official opening of the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering on its Seattle campus. The building doubles the space available to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering to enable a new wave of computing innovation and to educate more of Washington’s students for 21st century careers that will help shape the future of technology.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-based group is launching a national student challenge to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo moon landing.
A team of ocean robots developed at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is the first group of self-guided ocean instruments to travel under an ice sheet and come back to report long-term observations.
A center housed at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø offers a new way for scientists to get their hands on state-of-the-art equipment to study the effects of natural disasters. The RAPID Facility, which is the first of its kind in the world, contains over 300 instruments that are available for researchers around the world to use.
Recent notable books by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members explore the importance of Hebrew to modern America, remember the 1919 Seattle General Strike and look at issues in education, among other topics. Practical advice for healthy travel, near or far A new book by Dr. Christopher Sanford offers simple, practical recommendations for those traveling near or far, short or long term, for work or recreation, to “destinations ranging from rural areas to large cities, in both developing and industrialized…
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is part of an international program that has revolutionized ocean measurements. This fall, the program made its 2 millionth measurement, reporting temperature and salinity in the top mile of the world’s oceans.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses sonar to monitor someone’s breathing rate and sense when an opioid overdose has occurred.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø team created a mechanical eye under the ocean’s surface that could live near renewable-energy sites and use a series of sensors to watch nearby animals. On Dec. 13, the researchers put the newest version of the AMP into the waters of Seattle’s Portage Bay for two weeks of preliminary testing before a more thorough analysis is conducted in Sequim, Washington.