Environment
Trouble in Tatoosh
The ocean's acidity around a tiny island off the Washington coast has been changing 10 times faster than expected. The surprising finding might reflect an oceanic hot spot, rather than a broader trend.
Michele Solis
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Seattle & King County
Cutting-edge brain science comes to Seattle
Swedish opens a brain cancer center that works like a university, and looks like a spa.
Culture
Holy chiroptera! Meet the local bats
Like the neighbors I rarely see until July, bats are making their appearances during the drawn-out summer evenings here in the Northwest. Flitting in the dusk, these nocturnal and flying mammals that use ultrasonic calls outside of our hearing range inhabit a world quite separate from mine. But Bats
Equity
Health insurance coverage vs. science
A device to help those with autism and other conditions communicate has been excluded — and then included, and then excluded again — from health insurance coverage in Washington. At issue is the process by which insurers decide what's covered and why, which doesn't always reflect scientific consensu
Culture
Tongue ties: a language bridge across the Bering Strait
A Western Washington University professor has compared native languages in North America to those in Asia and found ties that suggest they come from the same ancestors.