Culture
Everything about the Pacific Northwest is on display at the new Burke Museum. Even the scientists.
The museum's new home brings its researchers out of the basement, and delivers a love letter of fossils and artifacts to our region.
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Environment
How one scientist enlisted a lakeside community to study (and eat) invasive crayfish
For 12 years, UW's Julian Olden has studied the native and invasive crayfish populations of Sammamish's Pine Lake. But the citizen scientists who live onshore are his secret weapon.
Environment
Hanford scientists are watching black holes collide — and potentially swallow each other
Physicists at Hanford's LIGO observatory have been watching black holes for years. But a recent discovery of an unseen black hole collision is an astronomical first.
Opinion
In the era of climate disaster, camping with your kid is an act of defiance
Raising kids to love the outdoors is a mixed bag when you know our planet's future is dire. But it can be a radical act of hope.
Focus
Fighting fire with fire to save Washington's forests
After over a century of fire suppression, the U.S. Forest Service is using prescribed burns as a way to reduce the risk of megafires.