by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Hikers love mountain goats because of their wildness, Wudan Yan writes for High Country News. Goats love hikers for the salt in their pee. Mountain goats are not native to the Olympic National Park, though, so wildlife managers are helicoptering them away from people....
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
For Hakai magazine, Madeline Ostrander goes on quite the hike. She travels with a team that has collected data on northwest glaciers for more than 35 years. Madeline (@madelinevo) gives us the history of the project, the glaciers, and the people who study them. She...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
Airports are known for noise pollution, but Lynn Schnaiberg writes about air pollution affecting communities around Sea-Tac International. For the University of Washington Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Lynn describes new research using methods...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 2, 2019 | ScienceWire, Uncategorized
Can you take a cat kayaking? Read Wudan Yan’s New York Times story, “Does Fluffy Really Want to Be an Adventure Cat?” and you might learn enough to harness-train your favorite feline, if not teach it to Eskimo roll. Eventually, like people interviewed and photographed...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
Our planet is blanketed, Wayt Gibbs writes, with thousands of satellites. Some “cubesats” are the size of a loaf of bread. Wayt (@WaytGibbs) goes beyond just reporting the number, size, and function of all this space hardware. In his feature for Anthropocene, Wayt...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
In an exclusive GeekWire story from his recent Middle East science tour, Alan Boyle (@b0yle) reports on an archaelogical find. The discovery, Alan writes, features glittering jewelry, a flash of scientific insight, and a Game-of-Thrones-quality battle. And of course,...
