Southern Resident Killer Whales spend most of the summer months in the waters of the San Juan and Gulf Islands, but until recently, little was known about their travels…
Nancy Ellen Abrams, an author and philosopher of science, recently faced a personal dilemma. A lifelong atheist, she began to embrace the idea of a higher power during her participation in a recovery community.
Barry Barish, one of the leaders of the LIGO experiment that recently detected gravity waves, delivered a lecture on this mind-bending — and space-time-rippling — discovery…
Two Seattle authors on the benefits of microbes.
Remote Midway Island, a thousand miles northwest of Hawaii, lies near the center of the Mid-Pacific Gyre, where much of the plastic detritus entering the Pacific Ocean has been concentrating.
Many inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest vividly remember the towering plume of grey volcanic ash that filled the skies on the morning of May 18, 1980.