#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Boyle: Here’s Winking at You, Neil
Alan Boyle tells us the best way to remember Neil Armstrong, and it's as easy as looking up. Squint hard enough and you might see the Mars Curiosity rover. Alan's been all over the rover, like the rover has been all over the red planet. Follow Alan at Cosmic Log for...
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...