How A Cosmic Collision Sparked A Native American Translator's Labor Of Love
On April 1, astronomers will start two huge machines and continue hunting for ripples in space-time. One scientist gets his mom to translate news of each discovery into her native language, Blackfoot.
On April 1, scientists will officially restart their search for gravitational waves after a year spent making improvements to massive twin detectors. Discoveries should soon start rolling in, and when they do, there's a good chance the news will be translated into a Native American language called Blackfoot, or Siksika.
That's thanks to , who works at the (LIGO) site in Washington state. He has been collaborating with his mom to translate this cutting-edge field of science spoken by just thousands of people worldwide.
