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By studying how Indigenous societies use fire, ecologist Ernesto Alvarado is learning how we can fight wildfires.

An aerospace engineering professor uses origami to inspire effective design.

In the moment a star dies, astronomer Emily Levesque can see how time, space and the universe all work.

Dr. Robin Kodner studies 2 billion year old snow algae high in mountain fields and glaciers to learn about life's beginnings, and its future.

I couldn't do everything to become an ethical citizen of my new home, but I could do something.

To learn how mountain lions and humans can coexist, wildlife biologist Lauren Satterfield follows the elusive animals by car, snowmobile and on foot through the wilderness.

Researcher Dominic Sivitilli goes to the bottom of the sea to study the bizarre mind of the giant pacific octopus.

Everywhere I went in 2019, I found myself missing a piece of the city.

Facing climate upheaval on Washington's coast, members of the Quinault tribe take to the sea in the canoes of their ancestors.

The city's most iconic signs are losing their vaunted glow to LED replacements. But not everyone is giving up on neon.