by Susan Keown | Jul 6, 2021 | ScienceWire
A new deep learning method, writes Sarah McQuate (@potassiumwhale) for UW News, can turn a photo of flowing water, smoke or clouds into an endlessly looping, real-looking video. The University of Washington researchers say that by adding more visual information into...
by Susan Keown | Jul 6, 2021 | ScienceWire
Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) reports for Nature about turmoil in the historic astronomy department of Lund University in Sweden. Independent investigations found that serial harassment by two senior faculty members caused long-lasting, widespread harm to colleagues....
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
In her new book, “Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home,” Lynda V. Mapes (@LyndaVMapes) documents the natural history of the Southern Resident orcas that live in the Puget Sound and the threats that the remaining 74 whales in this group face from habitat degradation, food...
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
COVID-19 forced courtrooms across the U.S. to carry out justice virtually. Eric Scigliano (@SeattleFlotsam) explores in The Atlantic how this change — which is here, to some extent, to stay — could have major impacts on how justice is served in this country. He...
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Despite its ubiquity, dark matter has eluded all attempts to detect it directly. Mara Johnson-Groh writes in Symmetry Magazine about a new “paleodetector” proposal to analyze ancient rock samples for traces of dark matter. She explains how even a tiny sample of a...
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
For Geekwire’s Health Tech podcast, Lisa Stiffler (@lisa_stiffler) talks to Sanath Kumar Ramesh, whose son Raghav was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder. As a software engineer, Ramesh is oriented toward problem-solving. So when Raghav’s doctors told the family...
