Sci/Tech

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.

They won’t be flying to the moon, but will be paving the way. NASA announced today the four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, a mission targeting launch from Kennedy Space Center next year. “So you want to find out who the astronauts are?” Isaacman said jokingly before revealing the quartet during an event at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Commanding the crew is NASA veteran Randy Bresnik ...

Time to look up, stargazers – there’s going to be a planetary "kiss" on Tuesday. You'll be able to spot the two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, converge with the naked eye for about ​45 minutes after sunset on Tuesday.

MIAMI — Inside the University of Miami’s newly opened 3D-bioprinting lab, the future of medicine looks a lot like science fiction. Think miniscule robotic devices that repair the body. Molecules designed to hunt down cancer cells. And a printer capable of creating a prosthetic ear in less than 10 minutes. “You thought it was science fiction, but it’s not,” said Sylvia Daunert, chair of ...

NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station were temporarily ordered to take shelter on a spacecraft docked at the outpost as repairs were made to air leaks on the Russian segment.

Scientists recently uncovered fossilized jawbones of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti – a massive, kraken-like octopus that roamed Earth about 72 million years ago.According to a recent study published in the journal Science, these enormous cephalopods would have been some of the biggest marine creatures of the Cretaceous Period and might have been the largest invertebrates ever.

A Florida-based fishing personality on Monday demonstrated the power of a wolffish’s bite by having a buddy place an unopened can of Pepsi in its mouth.

The world is not “well prepared” for the next pandemic, Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, citing the current response to the Ebola outbreak and cuts to U.S. public health efforts. “This Ebola outbreak is not going to cause a pandemic, it’s not going to cause a significant risk to large numbers of Americans,” Frieden, the CEO of Resolve to Save ...

Blue Origin is a central player in NASA’s moon project, but those plans took a big hit Thursday night when one of Jeff Bezos’ rockets catastrophically exploded into a giant mushroom cloud on its Cape Canaveral launch pad. It’s unknown how long it could take to get the pad up and running again — and the space agency’s timetable for its next Artemis mission, which Blue Origin had hoped to be a ...

Louise van der Weyden is a dog person. But as a scientist who studies cancer in animals, she has turned her attention to cats in recent years.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday grounded SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy rocket after updated findings labeled last week’s launch from Texas a “mishap” because of an uncontrolled booster return.

KPop band BTS was celebrated on Monday with the top award of artist ​of the year at the fan-voted American Music Awards on Monday.