Monitoring the Chandra satellite, which watches for the birth and death of stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies. Launched in 1999, it has lasted far beyond its planned lifetime of five years.
Got a Book in You? How to Find an Agent — and an Audience
Mackenzie Brady Watson likes to represent nonfiction science authors: Before entering the literary world, she was a microbiology researcher. When she feels excited about ideas, and feels the same excitement from authors, she’ll offer to represent them.
Venturing Inside the Genome: Feng Zhang on the Promise of CRISPR
Behind the catchy name and the near-deafening buzz surrounding the technology, CRISPR has the potential to help scientists understand sections of the human genome whose roles are still unknown.
FOIA Got You Down? Michael Morisy and MuckRock Can Help
“‘What if we build a website that just makes FOIA as it should be? Then we’ll take care of all the messy back-end stuff and manage that process for people.”
Carl Zimmer’s Cure for ‘Boring Genome Syndrome’
Genome sequencing “is more and more a part of our culture,” the star science writer tells KSJ fellows. “This is a part of business. This is a part of the modern economy.”
Mark Kramer on How to Host a Science Story
At a Knight Science Journalism seminar, the veteran writer and founder of BU’s Power of Narrative Conference talks about the importance of voice.