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• White House honoree boasts roots in Colville

  May 27, 2012 in City on Page B1 William Foege is a giant. It’s not his 6-foot-7 frame that earns him this distinction. Rather, it’s his role in stamping out smallpox and helping to set a global agenda … 2

• Wash. students beat national average in science

  May 10, 2012 in Region SEATTLE — Washington eighth graders did better than the national average on a science test that is given to kids across the country, but two-thirds of the middle school students … 7

• STEM grant to develop education

  May 3, 2012 in City on Page A6 A Washington nonprofit organization has given $220,000 to spearhead development of a local program focusing on science, technology, engineering and math education. Washington STEM, the nonprofit, also supports the creation …

• Dinosaur discoveries are rooted in patience

  April 25, 2012 in City on Page A5 If you think science is glamorous, walk a mile in Cynthia Faux’s shoes – watching dead birds soak and beef tendons tighten. If you have any doubt that science is … 1

• Science grant to help women

  January 17, 2012 in City on Page A5 A National Science Foundation grant recently awarded to Gonzaga University is aimed at bringing more women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers, often called the STEM fields. The nearly … 1

• Nobel Prize awarded for universe expansion discovery

  October 4, 2011 in Nation/World A Johns Hopkins University professor was one of three scientists awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics today for discovering that the universe is expanding at a faster and faster … 1

• Armed for learning

  April 22, 2011 in City on Page A5 Lisa Fehling’s second-graders were practically quivering with excitement Thursday as they tried to listen patiently to instructions before dashing to their desks to begin poking, prodding and squishing octopi through …

• Organization honors 5 WSU researchers

  January 14, 2011 in City on Page A7 Five Washington State University researchers have been honored by the largest scientific society in the world for advancing distinguished science applications. The American Association for the Advancement of Science included …

• Math, science teachers get paid less than others in Wash.

  August 18, 2010 in Region Lawmakers and other Washington state officials have talked a lot about focusing more on science and math education, but researchers at the University of Washington have found that despite this … 5

• Idaho graduates don’t need to pass science test

  August 13, 2010 in City on Page A9 BOISE – Idaho is scrapping a rule that would have required high school students to pass standardized tests in science before they graduate, starting with the class of 2013. Idaho … 4

• Adventurer connects thrill-seeking, trigonometry

  August 13, 2010 in City on Page A1 Summer 1977. John Herrington, suspended from the University of Colorado for lousy grades, hangs by one arm from a cliff, holding a prism for highway surveyors, earning four bucks an … 1

• Gregoire asks every school district to sign grant

  April 7, 2010 in City Gov. Chris Gregoire is asking all of Washington 295 school districts to join an effort to seek $250 million from the federal government for education reform. 10

• Science learning center in the works

  November 1, 2009 in City on Page A6 A North Idaho nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting science and technology education plans to build a 20,000-square-foot science center in Rathdrum. The North Idaho Discovery Association, or NIDA, plans to … 2

• Pesky bug infestation an ‘environmental wonder’

  October 20, 2009 in City The smokey-winged ash aphid – that little gray-blue critter flittering around tree-lined residential areas in the Inland Northwest this month – is a harmless but sometimes annoying insect that typically … 4

• Discovery could extend fertility

  April 14, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Scientists have produced strong new evidence challenging one of the most fundamental assumptions in biology: that female mammals, including women, are born with all the eggs they will …

• EWU professor digs up ancient history in Cyprus

  November 29, 2008 in City on Page B1 It helps to record a conversation with Georgia Bonny Bazemore so you can listen to it later with the benefit of Google. Because you may have forgotten that Adonis was …

• Mission: Space Frontiers

  January 24, 2008 in Voices on Page V3 Don’t call Joe Bruce spacey. Call him Space Guy. OK, he gets a little dreamy when talking about landing a man on Mars or traveling outside the solar system.

• The world explained

  July 23, 2007 in Business on Page A10 Web: http://www.sciam.com/podcast Feed: http://www.sciam.com/podcast/ sciam_podcast_i_d.xml

• Dinosaur Guts Preserved In Fossil Remains Of Previously Unknown Species Show Extraordinary Details

  March 26, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A4 This fossilized baby dinosaur has proved to be so well-preserved that scientists can see muscle fibers and the intestine. Photo by Associated Press

• Broken Tools, Other Mishaps Wrench Mir Spacewalk

  March 4, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A7 In an embarrassing failure that capped a tense day, two Mir cosmonauts canceled a spacewalk Tuesday because they ran out of wrenches and into several minor problems aboard the aging …

• Mutant Nucleus Of Atoms Take On Football Shapes

  March 2, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A2 Pop quiz: What shape is the nucleus of an atom? If you said spherical, you’re right - for almost every isotope of almost every element. But in some weird cases, …

• Supernova’s Blast Sets Off Stellar Display Ring Of Fire Draws Telescopes To Distant Galaxy

  February 11, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A5 A photo taken in 1994, left, shows the glowing gas ring around the supernova. The gas, excited by light from the explosion, had been fading for a decade. But the …

• Trace Of Deadly 1918 Flu Epidemic Holds Research Promise Corpse, One Of 21 Million Dead, Yields Sample

  February 7, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A3 A specimen of the influenza virus that killed 21 million people in the 1918 worldwide epidemic has been recovered from the frozen remains of a flu victim buried in Alaska. …

• Meeting Erupts In Excitement Offshore Volcano Shakes With Strongest Quake Recorded At Peak

  January 29, 1998 in City on Page B2 The clusters of white dots on this topographic map of the sea floor mark the epicenters of a swarm of earthquakes from Sunday through Tuesday after the volcano Axial erupted …

• Endeavor Heads For Space Rendezvous Shuttle Expected To Link With Mir On Saturday

  January 23, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A3 The Astronauts: from front left, Joe Edwards, Terry Wilcutt, Bonnie Dunbar, Michael Anderson, Salizhan Sharipov, Andy Thomas, James Reilly. Photo by Associated Press

• Scientists Extend Life Of Human Cell

  January 14, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A8 Striking new evidence that life span may be stretchable is coming from experiments in which human cells were engineered to stay young and vigorous far longer than usual, scientists reported …

• Huge Black Hole At Hub Of Milky Way Eating Up Old Stars Astronomers Say This Is ‘Best Evidence Yet’

  January 8, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A3 Astronomers reported new evidence Wednesday that an immense black hole, weighing as much as 2,600,000 suns, squats at the hub of the Milky Way, gobbling up elderly stars while the …

• Cloning Advocate Breeds Contempt Medical Skeptics, Moral Critics Attack Plan To Replicate Humans

  January 8, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A1 A scientist’s claim that he will start cloning humans within two years set off a nationwide clamor Wednesday from doctors who say it can’t be done, ethicists who say it …

• Nasa Manager ‘Thrilled’ As Spacecraft Heads To Moon

  January 8, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A3 NASA’s Lunar Prospector probe hurtled on course Wednesday toward a weekend rendezvous with the moon. The spacecraft’s communications with Earth were steady and clear, its five science instruments successfully activated. …

• Soon, Pioneer Won’t Call Home Space Voyager, Spanning Half-Million Miles A Day, Heading Out Of Range

  December 12, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A16 A quarter-century after its launch, Pioneer 10 is still helping astronomers explore the universe. But the little spacecraft is slowly fading from radio contact and will be beyond the reach …

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