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You probably no longer bat an eye when an electric car passes by on the road. More novel battery-powered vehicles are soon joining the parade to help operators achieve their sustainability goals. Electric ferries are coming to Puget Sound and hybrid electric airplanes are being tested in Washington. Now, several Pacific Northwest fire departments have ordered their first electric fire trucks.
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Artificial intelligence is helping scientists better understand wildfire emissions in the Northwest.
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Did you feel the ground move today, or yesterday or over the weekend? Not likely, even though a wave of small tremors was spreading under people's feet in…
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As a U.S. Department of Energy plane flew over the Amazon rainforest, it sipped and sampled air in real time.Pacific Northwest National Laboratory…
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Wheeled autonomous robots to bring online orders to your door have the green light to enter commercial service in Washington state. Gov. Jay Inslee signed…
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Highly attractive businesswomen are considered to be less trustworthy, less truthful and more deserving to be fired, according to a researcher at…
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A research project to model the effects from a Cascadia megaquake found higher risk of collapse for modern tall buildings than previously…
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Most people in the Pacific Northwest know we live in earthquake country. A new analysis published this week, however, notes that major quakes in the…
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Drones that fly through the sky to deliver packages are taking longer than anticipated to become reality. But wheeled delivery robots that drive down the…
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Tests performed at Washington State University have found that people smoked tobacco in the Pacific Northwest going back more than a thousand years…
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One way to predict the risk of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest is to look at how often they occurred in the past – and, for several groups of…
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Ocean researchers have found nearly 1,000 methane seep sites along the continental shelf of the Pacific Northwest. The bubble streams could be a sign of…