Weeks and Adler: Next Generation

Reitha Weeks and Susan Adler are cultivating new science writers. Reitha, Susan, and colleagues at the (NWABR) hold an annual “Biomedical Breakthroughs and My Life” that gets middle schoolers to think—and write—about science. Read the winning entries from 454 students...

Cramer: Big Bang or Big Groan?

John G. Cramer gives us a sound bite of the birth (or at least early childhood) of the universe. John is a University of Washington physics professor but the project started with his writings for Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The sound recreation is so cool, it...

Stricherz: What Doesn’t Kill You…

…might make you grow faster, writes Vince Stricherz. That is, if you’re a plant exposed to the toxin hydrogen sulfide. Vince, writing for the University of Washington, explains how a lot of the sewer gas is poisonous, but a little bit might just press an evolutionary...

Nelson: Sane and Green

 Bryn Nelson tells us how to keep it real in the new : Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age. In a section called in The Sane Science Writer, Bryn has a chapter on Avoiding Domestic Disasters. Must be working. Bryn’s New York...