Mar 25, 2024 | Life Science/Global Health
Anyone who has had a traditional screening for colon cancer knows the stress involved in not only doing the stool test right, but having to wait for the results to come in and, if it’s positive for blood, wondering if you somehow messed it all up on your end....
Mar 22, 2024 | Life Science/Global Health
Antibodies are one of the best defenses the human body has come up with. Unfortunately, your natural immune system doesn’t always have the right tools in the toolbox to combat every virus that comes your way. Until recently, lab-generated antibodies were hit-and-miss....
Mar 12, 2024 | Agriculture & Food Processing
When it comes to irrigating crops, repeated timing errors, equipment failures and communication miscues have been the bane of farmers for centuries. The result: Too little, too much or no water at all on crops. It certainly was an irritation for the Wallace family in...
Feb 27, 2024 | Advanced Manufacturing, Made In Washington
A Quantum Leap Accelerator may be gee-whiz fodder for a reimagined television series. But in Washington State, quantum computing is taking its own quantum leap, thanks to a new factory in Bothell. IonQ, which started with a 65,000-square-foot space in a former...
Jan 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Washington’s startup community is not only alive and well, but changing with the times. A plethora of startups made the Geekwire 200, representing new ideas in health, energy, artificial intelligence, and other industries of the future. Exciting times, given that...
Jan 18, 2024 | Innovation, Space
Washington’s bold pioneer spirit has long been a staple of our culture of innovation and exploration, dating back to the ancient people who settled here more than 10,000 years ago. So it should come as no surprise that this spirit is alive and well as humans escape...
Jan 17, 2024 | Climate, Innovation
For the last 200 years, the role of concrete has been set in society. The miracle chemical reaction that binds water, sand, rock, and a dry compound containing limestone can be found in our bridges, buildings, pipes, and highways. Concrete is everywhere. And therein...
Jan 10, 2024 | Innovation, Technology
Artificial intelligence is having some profound effects on the scientific world these days. Even the most mundane item – batteries – are getting a makeover with AI. Researchers at Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), along with a little...
Jan 9, 2024 | Made In Washington
Who would have thought that the standard bearer of keeping cold things cold and hot things hot would become a cultural phenomenon? Yes, we’re talking about the social media darling – Stanley. A Seattle institution, Stanley thermoses have been in the backpacks of...