Technology

The alt-right has an unlikely new martyr in the culture wars: A Harvard-educated engineer in the heart of Silicon Valley. Margaret O'Mara, a history professor at the UW, is quoted. 

Dr. Thomas Duell, a neurologist at Swedish Medical Center and a music professor at UW, invented an instrument that reads the electrical activity of the brain and turns it into musical notes.

“Historically, most collections of speech and language tend to be more male and white and middle class,” says UW Linguistics prof. Rachael Tatman.

Faculty and students are digitizing historically valuable texts through Newbook Digital Texts.

UW chemists are developing tools to improve our understanding of cancer cells — and our ability to treat cancer.

Good news for people who hate practicing scales: scientists have created a musical instrument you can play with just your thoughts. 

International Studies Professor, Saadia Pekkanen, on how Japan is targeting independence in space-based information.

UW History Department professor, Margaret O'Mara, weighs in on Mark Zuckerberg's recent commencement speech.

Astronomers need to know how stars form and black holes burst -- and how to pry that information from the many terabytes of data that will stream from next-generation telescopes.

Join the Jackson School of International Studies on Friday, June 2 for a lively discussion of vital emerging cybersecurity issues.

Books, TV Shows, podcasts, news stories, the latest meme. There's a constant stream of media to keep up with. How do we stay sane?

A University of Washington seminar, promises to help students develop a BS detector — and it’s become a global phenomenon.

Marcos Llobera brings landscapes of the past to life through cutting-edge computational methods and digital archeology 

Neurologists, composers and tech-geeks at the UW's DXARTS program study music and the mind — including the encephalophone, a new instrument you can play without moving a muscle.

The UW’s Hyperloop team is getting ready to compete in a set of pod races aimed at blazing a trail for a new means of near-supersonic travel – but they need a little help to get to the starting line.