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This photo provided by Nicolas Biver shows Comet C/2023 A3 (ATLAS-Tsuchinshan) as seen from Eure-et-Loir, France, June 6, 2024.

Comet can be spotted during October

October 15, 2024, 5:48am Life

Prepare to spot a rare, bright comet. Read story

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with a NASA spacecraft bound for Jupiter lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center Monday, Oct. 14, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of the right conditions for life

October 14, 2024, 11:29am Latest News

A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life. Read story

American biochemist David Baker, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, holds a model of a designed protein nanoparticle during a tour at the University of Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Seattle.

3 ways UW Nobel Prize winner’s discoveries help real-world problems

October 13, 2024, 6:00am Life

Every cell in our bodies contains proteins — they’re critical to our most basic functions, like protecting us against viruses, helping our cells replicate and ferrying oxygen in our blood. Read story

An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glows in the night sky above a road in Lietzen, eastern Germany.

What’s behind the northern lights that dazzled the sky farther south than normal

October 11, 2024, 11:13am Life

Another in a series of unusually strong solar storms hitting Earth produced stunning skies full of pinks, purples, greens and blues farther south than normal, including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City. Read story

American biochemist David Baker, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, speaks to members of the media during a tour of a lab at the University of Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Seattle.

David Baker, a UW professor who grew up in Seattle, wins Nobel Prize

October 10, 2024, 8:13am Latest News

University of Washington School of Medicine professor David Baker and his biochemistry colleagues have had the audacity to think they can design complex molecules that function faster and more effectively than the ones created by Mother Nature. Read story

Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics

This photo combo shows the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor Geoffrey Hinton, of the University of Toronto, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024.

October 8, 2024, 7:35am Life

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence – John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton – won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats to humanity, one of the winners said. Read story

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Comet can be spotted during October

NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of the right conditions for life

3 ways UW Nobel Prize winner’s discoveries help real-world problems

What’s behind the northern lights that dazzled the sky farther south than normal

David Baker, a UW professor who grew up in Seattle, wins Nobel Prize

Control the path and power of hurricanes like Milton? Forget it, scientists say

Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics

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Push on to map bottom of Great Lakes

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