Tag: Science
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From startups to spaceships: Ten top books for geeks to read in 2017
What’s Bill Gates reading now? We’re taking a guess. (Gates Foundation Photo) Geeks and books go together like athletes and balls, but just as there are different sports, there are different types of geek reading. We’ve put together a top-10 list of books on a wide spectrum of geeky topics, all published over the past…
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‘Rogue One’ and more: 10 big-screen tales of science fiction (and fact) to watch for
Felicity Jones stars in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” (Disney / Lucasfilm Photo) Mild spoiler alert! This review doesn’t reveal any major plot twists, but wait to read it if you don’t want to know a single thing about “Rogue One” or other science-fiction films. Tonight’s the first chance most of us will have…
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Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views
An image from the Sentinel-2 satellite shows the Australian city of Brisbane and its surroundings. (Credit: ESA / Google) How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more than 30 years’ worth of satellite imagery from the Landsat and Sentinel-2 missions, for free. Satellite views…
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How to geek out with Neil deGrasse Tyson, on stage, on screen or with a book
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts “StarTalk” from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (Credit: National Geographic Channel) Few people can geek out to a movie harder than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, but he met his match when it came to Thor’s hammer. Tyson, who’s the director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium as…
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Obama puts Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi tale ‘Seveneves’ on his summer reading list
“Seveneves” by Neal Stephenson. (Credit: William Morrow) Seattle science-fiction author Neal Stephenson’s tale about the moon’s destruction and what happens next, “Seveneves,” has won a place on President Barack Obama’s summer reading list. Obama, who’s beginning his summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, isn’t the only one who has put Stephenson’s 880-page novel on a short list. Microsoft…
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Seattle girls who captivated nation with homemade spacecraft ready to launch again — with new science goals, new Star Wars hero on board
Budding scientists and space explorers Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung of Seattle. The Seattle sisters who captivated GeekWire’s audience and earned an invitation to the White House after launching a homemade craft to the edge of space are embarking on another mission this weekend. Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung are planning to send up the Loki Lego…
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30 years in the making, ‘Voyage of Time’ trailer sends you on a cosmic trip
The poster for “Voyage of Time” emphasizes the film’s cosmic subject matter. (Credit: IMAX) The video trailer for “Voyage of Time” provides a trippy taste of a movie that’s been more than 30 years in the making – and tells the story of a universe that’s been billions of years in the making. Make that…
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The universe is expanding 5-9% faster than astronomers expected, Hubble team finds
Illustration shows the three steps astronomers used to measure the universe’s expansion rate to an unprecedented accuracy. (Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI), and A. Riess (STScI/JHU)) New research from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team suggests that the universe is expanding significantly faster than astronomers originally thought. The latest measurements indicate an expansion rate five to nine…
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Alaska Airlines changes Anchorage-Honolulu flight to catch total solar eclipse
A passenger aboard a Lufthansa flight watches a solar eclipse out the window in March 2015. Passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight will have a similar opportunity on Tuesday. (Credit: Lufthansa via YouTube) Now, that’s service: Amateur astronomers persuaded Seattle-based Alaska Airlines to shift its departure time for Tuesday’s flight from Anchorage to Honolulu 25…
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‘The Age of Aerospace’: Boeing sponsors TV series looking back at 100 years of high-flying history
“The Age of Aerospace” traces 100 years of history. (Credit: Science Channel) This year marks the Boeing Co’s 100th anniversary, and the company is using the centennial as an opportunity not only to celebrate its own history, but the history of aerospace as well. That celebration takes the TV spotlight starting tonight, in the form of…