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Seattle crows are so smart, they’re challenging what we know about evolution

Researchers have made startling discoveries in recent years about a crow’s ability to communicate, solve problems, remember people, and use tools. What they’re discovering about crow brains is changing how scientists understand intelligence — and bringing into question our accepted version of evolution.
Stephen Howie
Why didn't OceanGate's CEO heed warnings before the fatal Titan sub implosion?

It’s been a year since a Washington-made sub imploded on a dive to explore the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board, including Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate, the Everett-based company that made the sub. Now, an investigative report in WIRED magazine details questionable decisions made by Rush in the years leading up to the Titan crash.
Hans Anderson

Stephen Howie

Libby Denkmann
Seattle crows, beloved and feared, may be playing us with their primate-sized brains

Seattleites have a unique relationship with the crows that roam the city's neighborhoods and parks, but for the crows, is it all about the peanuts?
Stephen Howie
He broke his neck diving into a pool. 20 years later, new technology is helping him recover

In a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers at the University of Washington and at universities in Colorado and Georgia have found that electrical stimulation on the surface of the skin, targeting the spine, can improve strength, mobility, sensation and function in the bodies of people with long term spinal cord injuries. The novel therapy is breaking the limits that many with spinal injuries have dealt with for years, and all without the need for additional surgery.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan
On this unassuming trail near LA, bird watchers see something spectacular

At Bear Divide, just outside Los Angeles, you can see a rare spectacle of nature. This is one of the only places in the western United States where you can see bird migration during daylight hours.
Kai McNamee
$caption: This illustration shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus with a plume of ice particles, water vapor, and organic molecules that sprays from fractures in the moon's south polar region.$
Is there life on... Saturn? A small moon orbiting the sixth planet has scientists' attention

One of Saturn's 146 moons is at the center of newly energized interest in the search for life in space.
Diana Opong

Jason Burrows

Katie Campbell
Can we combat climate change by brightening clouds?

A University of Washington professor is the lead researcher on a team experimenting with "cloud brightening" technology to make clouds more reflective so they bounce more of the sun’s rays back out to space, theoretically cooling the Earth and combating global warming.
Diana Opong

Alec Cowan

Hans Anderson
What's at the core of new apple creation at Washington State University?

Soundside host Diana Opong sits down with WSU horticulturalist and fruit breeder Kate Evans to talk about the science behind creating the new WA64 apple.
Diana Opong

Jason Burrows
National

Women of color still lag behind in STEM jobs, despite efforts to change

STEM careers are still lagging when it comes to hiring women of color.
Marisa Peñaloza
$caption: KUOW's Hans Twite captured the lackluster view of a total solar eclipse from Seattle on April 8, 2024. Washington was already set to get just a fraction of the eclipse, and cloudy conditions mostly blocked even that out.$
Subtle Seattle eclipse show couldn't outshine local enthusiasm

Seattle’s cloudy weather made for an anticlimactic viewing of Monday’s solar eclipse.
Ruby de Luna

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