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Axiom crew splashes down in a SpaceX capsule after doing space station science

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Axiom Space crew members Rayyanah Barnawi, John Shoffner, Peggy Whitson and Ali Alqarni discuss their mission during their nine-day stay on the International Space Station. Thanks to her previous space station missions, Whitson holds the U.S. “We really enjoyed all of it,” she told SpaceX’s Mission Control. .

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Report: Life sciences sector is booming as companies swoop up lab space and raise gobs of cash

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Life sciences venture capital funding in the Seattle area. It’s hard for life sciences startups to find lab space, and there’s a good reason. The sector has been on a tear, according to a report tallying venture capital and real estate transactions in Seattle and other life science clusters within the last year.

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Washington State U. launches ‘Spinout Space in Spokane’ incubator for life sciences startups

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Washington State University is launching a new life sciences incubator in Spokane, Wash., Spinout Space in Spokane ( sp³nw ) is getting off the ground with a $250,000 anchor grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, WSU announced on Thursday. (WSU Photo). The building currently known as Ignite NW will be rebranded.

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Robert Winglee, 1958-2020: UW’s ‘Rocket Man’ launched thousands of space and science careers

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Winglee, former chairman of UW’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences and current director of Washington’s NASA Space Grant Consortium, died after suffering a heart attack on Christmas Eve. In 1991 he joined the UW, where he taught and studied space plasma physics and propulsion systems. He was a science innovator.

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KuCoin CEO: We’ll See First Fully Operational Metaverse in Five to Seven Years

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The term ‘metaverse’ was coined by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel ‘Snow Crash’, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional virtual space that uses the metaphor of the real world.

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Palantir is continuing its push into life sciences with customers like Merck and Sanofi

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Read Belle Lin take a look at how Palantir Technologies is expanding into life sciences space on Business Insider : In a continued push to expand its business beyond the sometimes-controversial federal defense and intelligence contracts it’s best-known for, $42 billion big data company Palantir is making a new push into industries including life (..)

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Univ. of Washington launches research center to tackle computer science education challenges

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of the Washington’s high school students attending either public or state-tribal schools took a computer science class, according to state data. Roughly half of the public or state-tribal schools even offer a computer science class. There aren’t enough computer science teachers. Last year, 8.4%

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