Seattle Science & Technology News

Yesterday morning, the Web's leading search engine introduced First Click Free, a refinement to its Google News portal designed to allow browsers to see one story before encountering a paywall. "Previously, each click from a user would be treated as...

The Kittitas County sheriff's office says 62-year-old Dwight Bates had been elk hunting in the Manastash area and was attempting to drive to Highway 410...Search officials and volunteers are working out of the Manastash Snow Park. ---

The timing could not have been better. Struggling to overcome chronic underfunding, Nasa's plans for sending astronauts back to the moon seemed at risk of being frozen. Water may be lurking in the lunar soil of the moon could prompt...

WolframAlpha, which was launched in mid-May, announced that starting on Wednesday, Bing would incorporate results from WolframAlpha in answers to certain search queries. "WolframAlpha's knowledge, computed from expertly curated data, will enrich Bing's results in select areas across nutrition,...

Last fall, he responded to a call of a naked man teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at officers below with a long fluorescent light bulb. Pigott made a split decision to order an officer to fire a stun...

Immigration officials say six illegal immigrants have been arrested in Mount Vernon, Wash., after agents descended on a trailer park...Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lorie Dankers says five men and one woman, ages 19 to 34, were arrested Tuesday.

Snowfall in the Cascades on Friday and today will be a boon to skiers and a bother for drivers. About 2 to 4 inches fell onto the passes at about 2,500 feet and above Friday in the daytime, and another...

The provost at the University of Washington has taken on a second job as a director on the corporate board at Nike. The Seattle Times reports the Phyllis Wise is Washington's No...Wise says she was approached by Nike and "hopes...

The federal Government Accountability Office has denied an appeal that protested the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's decision to move its research fleet from Seattle's Lake Union to Newport, Ore. On Thursday, the GAO essentially said the appeal was not...