“With climate change, wildfires are becoming more common,” said UCSC researcher Christina Richardson. “There’s just a paucity of pre-fire data that has impaired our understanding of how fires are actually impacting stream water composition.”

The CZU fires have lasting impacts, even 4 years later!

"I take seriously the social responsibility of scientists, and I deeply appreciate being recognized both for my scientific contributions and for my efforts," said Primack.

Joel's got an incredible life story that I had the pleasure of profiling! 🌟

“They're not timely, and people aren’t sure if they’re safe,” said Kyle Vergara, vice chair of the Student Union Governance Board. “Now, they’ve become a health hazard and a risk to students just being on them.”

Tensions culminated in this recent town hall. Glad I covered this important topic!

Fadi and his daughter also got to talk about UNITE on NBC Bay Area News!

Go check out how a father-daughter pair bonds by doing amateur astronomy science 🤩

“Sometimes, I long for just spending time looking at the stars, like I used to," said Fadi Saibi, a citizen scientist of a global initiative by @setiinstitute.bsky.social & Unistellar called UNITE.

Exoplanets are cool, but talking to exoplanet observers around the world is even cooler! 🔭🌎

“This galaxy was actually an interacting system of galaxies in the early universe,” says team lead Gareth Jones (University of Oxford).

A story I found while diving in archives in December. It's amazing to see how JWST can shed a great deal of clarity on distant objects!

Thank you so much!!

“We never observed entanglement in such a high-energy relativistic system as the LHC,” says Juan R. Muñoz de Nova, a condensed-matter physicist at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Thank you to the ATLAS scientists for speaking with me on this story!

“I thought, ‘Oh, it must be a collapsed lava tube or something,’” said amateur astronomer Jesper Sandberg. “But then I discovered this ejecta. So maybe it could be an impact crater.”

A story that highlights citizen science and retaining old images. Loved writing it, enjoy! ☄️