Olympia Science & Technology News

Along the Washington State coast each year, people come out in droves with buckets and shovels in hand to participate in the Razor clam digs. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has completed testing the clams, and approved...

Board on Geographic Names Executive Secretary Lou Yost says the board approved the name Thursday. That means Salish Sea can now be added to maps and other materials. Washington state's Board of Geographic Names approved the name late last month....

Severe interrogation techniques like sleep deprivation, stress positions, exploitation of phobias, and Dick Cheney's favorite, waterboaring aren't just reprehensible, they are based on bad science, according to Shane O"Mara, a stress researcher at Ireland's Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience....

Hawaii's first shipment of swine flu vaccine is expected to arrive next week, according to the state Health Department. Spokeswoman Janice Okubo said yesterday that Hawaii has been allocated 14,400 doses, based on population, for the first round of shipments,...

A consultant told the state Transportation Commission there's little interest in buying the naming rights to a ferry. But the consultant's report delivered Tuesday says advertising on boats and at terminals should be expanded to generate millions of dollars a...

They called it Nokia's mystery device. The Nokia N97 is it? Nokia announced a do-everything flagship smart phone , the N97, in Barcelona on Tuesday. The N97 combines a whole bunch of top-notch features: a touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY...

What is HIV? HIV is a virus that attacks the body's immune system-the body's defence against diseases. The latest research suggests that between 70 and 90 per cent of people may experience symptoms of infection a few days after having...

A worm dubbed Win32/Conficker.A is making the rounds on Windows machines, exploiting a security hole that Microsoft released a patch for in October, Microsoft said on Wednesday. The number of attacks have increased over the past couple of days, exploiting...