Sci/Tech

The year 1883 marked swift and lasting change for the Spokane River. The Northern Pacific Railroad connected Spokane to the coasts via transcontinental rail. Gold was found in the Coeur d’Alene mining district. The river would soon find itself at the center of an industrial boom.

In a building in downtown Spokane, everyone who walks in has their face scanned. The distance between their eyes, their shape and size, the width of their lips and tilt of their brow – this and more is captured and converted into a unique string of code.

New findings about an alien asteroid are out, and it’s all thanks to a New Jersey couple after an uninvited hazard crashed into their home two years ago. In July 2024, a meteorite shot through the sky. Observers across the Northeast said they witnessed a fireball at the time. Before reaching Earth, the asteroid had a mass of 115 pounds, according to calculations based on the fireball’s ...

In a major milestone in the search for life on planets outside our solar system, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star. The finding provides the strongest evidence yet that worlds with conditions similar to Earth in composition and temperature, with the potential to support life, could exist beyond our ​solar system, according to a new study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

Irwin Rose always wrote in capital letters.

Russia sent two cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the International Space Station on Tuesday from Kazakhstan, resuming crewed flights from a recently repaired launchpad with a rare joint attendance by the heads of NASA and Russia's space agency.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Monday closed its review into a SpaceX Starship booster's return failure that occurred during a flight test in May, clearing the way for Elon Musk's company to launch the rocket's next test flight from ​Texas as soon as Thursday.

When millions of soldiers returned home from World War II, Americans were focused on building families, homes and cities.

When Wally Funk was 5, she donned a Superman cape and leaped from the roof of her family’s barn in New Mexico, dreaming of flight and landing in a haystack.

The death of a red fox kit in Pullman this May confirms what scientists have long suspected: A species of deadly tapeworm has made itself at home in Washington.

Two professors from Washington State University have designed a dietary supplement meant to ease the addictive nature of nicotine and restrict the negative effects air pollutants have on the body.

For the past 14 years, Spokane residents learned about upcoming sales and promotions at Fred’s Appliance through the voice and face of Amber George.

Steve Otteson wasn’t planning to retire. The 55-year-old software engineer had been working at Microsoft for almost three decades, and he figured he still had a few more years in him. Then, this spring, the tech company made him a surprising offer: Quit and get nine months of pay. Suddenly, Otteson found himself confronted with the choice to retire early. He took the buyout the day before the ...

On this Father’s Day, you won’t find a papa Canada goose lounging in a hammock or enjoying seared steak. He’s too preoccupied with being a dad.

LOS ANGELES – In early 2022, around the time the Omicron variant started driving a new surge in COVID-19 cases, researchers at James DeGregori’s University of Colorado Anschutz lab noticed something unusual: When lab mice with dormant breast cancer cells were infected with either influenza or SARS-CoV-2, the animals were significantly more likely to develop aggressive lung tumors.

Call it Spoonie, Spoonbill or Bootlip. Just don’t call it funny looking.

Setting intentional forest fires and letting other low-severity ones burn can significantly lower the chances of extreme blazes torching those same areas in the future, according to a new study released Thursday, while reducing toxic smoke over time.

PITTSBURGH – For more than a century, antibiotics have been medicine’s go-to weapon against bacterial infections.

Avista Corp. confirmed Tuesday that the “large load” customer seeking a massive amount of electricity is in fact a proposed data center.