technology

Scientists have developed a new way to study really small fish. They’ve designed a tag that’s about the size of a grain of rice.

Using satellite remote sensing to measure water temperature has been heavily underutilized, said Faisal Hossain,  a professor at the University of…

Sensors developed in part by Washington State University could test your smoke exposure before health problems crop up.

(Runtime 3:31)Robots have taken over the STEM room at Marcus Whitman Elementary School in Richland, Washington.Little Lego boats, sunken ships and other…

There are only so many things employees get to have a say over in their jobs. Which laptops or messaging app your office uses might not be your call. For a while, decisions on the use of technology in the workplace have been up to management for public workers in Washington state, thanks to a law passed in 2002. But now, some lawmakers want to pass an exemption that would allow public sector employees to bargain on one broad and ever-changing technology — artificial intelligence.

Astronauts and space shuttles constantly are bombarded by radiation. An experiment designed in the Northwest blasted into space today. It’s helping…

(Runtime 4:16) It’s back-to-school season. Which means new classes, new books — and new debates about how to manage students and their phones. In Walla…

(Runtime 4:14) In the shadow of Mount St. Helens’ summit, 20 girls spent a week studying pumice, ash and lava at a GeoGirls camp. The famous Washington…

(Runtime 4:20)On rocky outcrops 6,000 feet up Mount Hood’s ski slopes, Spirit the robot took one small step for robots, one giant leap for science.“It’s…

Nestled between farm hills in the Columbia Basin, about 8,700 people call Othello, Washington home. The agrarian town was awarded $250,000 in rural…