Ostrom: Whew.

Why did Washington State legislators breathe a sigh of relief when health care reform was upheld? It’s complicated. But Carol Ostrom is keeping track of what health care reform means to the country and to our state. Check out the handy sidebar guide and in-depth...

Doughton: Gates Gets Controversial

Bill and Melinda show no fear. Sandi Doughton, NSWA board member and Seattle Times science reporter, follows the Gates Foundation from early support for birth control for women in poor countries, to noncontroversial children’s health, back to funding contraceptives....

James: Gettin’ Higgy with It

Our own NSWA President Sally James toasts and drinks and applauds and cheers into the wee hours with physicists and other fans of the Large Hadron Collider—all in the name of good science reporting of course. Find out how nerds celebrate in this GeekWire story about a...

Geiger: Messages from Mercury

 Mars usually hogs all the planet news. levitra generic ordering But Beth Geiger has a story about what we are learning from a high-tech, interplanetary SUV called MESSENGER. One scientist who talked to Beth for her article in Current Science, a Weekly Reader...

Phillips: In the Dark about Resistance

The parasite that causes malaria can become drug resistant, writes Melissa Lee Phillips  for Nature News. This resistance is associated with mutations in the parasite’s genome in a region that contains several candidate genes. No surprises there. But it’s how...