Last summer, Peter Degen’s postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One of his papers was being cited too much. Citations are the currency of academia, but there was something ...

In 2016, the Supreme Court halted an ambitious climate change initiative from President Barack Obama by a 5-to-4 vote along partisan lines. Its order was just one paragraph long and a stark departure ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Apr 2, 2026 at ...

Science has always relied on a curious human’s mind forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, analyzing the results and presenting the case to that person’s peers. Over centuries, we’ve built ...

Abstract: Since the first spacecraft was flown with photovoltaic power (Vanguard 1) more than 60 years ago, the desire for more power, higher specific power via light weight, and lower cost solar ...

"We are laying critical groundwork to enable quantum computers with more than 100,000 qubits," Will said. In a paper published in Nature, Will, Yu, and their colleagues combine two powerful ...

Forty years ago, “Back to the Future” premiered in theaters. The movie, about a teenager who inadvertently travels back in time, grossed around $222 million worldwide in inflation-adjusted dollars. If ...

Alec Baldwin — the actor who uttered perhaps the most iconic movie line ever about java, and also once publicly railed against a Starbucks worker as an “Uptight Queen barrista [sic]” with an “attitude ...

Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull. However, while Java, which turned 30 on May 23, may not be the most ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KAUZ) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced the reappointment of Texas Tech regent Dusty Womble while also appointing two new regents - Doug McReaken of Pearland and Donald ...