by Chris Tachibana | Dec 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
Wayt Gibbs, contributing editor to Scientific American, kicks off a special physics and astronomy issue that has stories on time travel, the origin of the universe, and human intelligence. Wayt (@WaytGibbs) will blow you away with his own piece on two invisible black...
by Matt Vivion | Nov 3, 2015 | Past Events
NSWA members and guests were invited to meet, chat, and share drinks with science writer and author George Musser following his Nov. 3 talk at Town Hall Seattle on “The ‘Spooky Action’ Shaping Physics.” Musser, a contributing editor at...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
Peter Kelley describes a cluster of super-earths, recently discovered and just 22 light-years away, in a news release from the University of Washington. The planets have conditions in the “habitable zone” for humans. Their discovery will guide astronomers in finding...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 4, 2013 | ScienceWire
Greg Scheiderer would let neither wind nor rain nor Seattle’s clouds stop him from seeing the transit of Venus. It happened last June but Greg’s quest is still an exciting read at his blog, SeattleAstronomy.com. The journal is in two posts, and the payoff in the...