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Einstein’s garden: translating physics into Blackfoot

A piece of ledger paper runs perpendicularly with an ornate, old-fashioned script font, with names and notes. At the top (on the right-hand side of the illustration), the date is 1889. A large button of yellow and blue thin concentric circles with two button holes in the middle overlays the text in the center of paper.

Sharon Yellowfly has been preserving and expanding the Blackfoot language by translating the announcements of LIGO’s universe-bending discoveries.

Where science meets the sacred

Sanford Underground Research Facility is making an effort to build bridges with Native American communities and operate with respect for the sacred land it is built on.