Physicist and physics historian David Kaiser spoke to KSJ Fellows about how culture and politics altered the fate of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. When LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves to the world in 2016, it was the discovery of a lifetime, hailed as the ultimate confirmation of a prediction made by Einstein’s […]
This Year’s Fellows: Pakinam Amer
The Nature Middle East Editor wants to use virtual reality to help people understand today’s scientific issues.
MIT Postdoc Edmond Awad, on the Moral Dilemmas of Self-Driving Cars
Awad and his MIT colleagues gave millions of people the self-driving-car trolley problem. In a recent visit to KSJ, he talked about what he learned. A self-driving car approaches a crosswalk and suddenly its brakes fail. It can avoid a person who’s crossing legally by swerving into the opposite lane, but then it will hit […]
This Year’s Fellows: Tim De Chant
The NOVA Next founder wants to research and better understand the ongoing transition to low-carbon energy sources. Before Tim De Chant became a journalist, he “accidentally majored in biology.” As a double major in environmental studies and English at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, he found that, between his two chosen fields of study, he […]
Alumni Notes: October 31, 2018
October 31, 2018 On October 1, Paula Apsell (’84) — member of the inaugural class of Knight Science Journalism fellows — collected a trophy to which few science journalists can lay claim: An Emmy statuette. In a ceremony at Frederick Rose Hall in New York City, the Senior Executive Producer of NOVA became the first […]
This Year’s Fellows: Jason Dearen
“Nothing feels better than when your story holds up under scrutiny.” Awards are great, but Jason Dearen is most proud of the time his writing got a man out of jail. In 2005, Dearen published a series of articles for the Oakland Tribune investigating the case of Matthew Deger, a schizophrenic patient caught in a […]