Jes Burns
Oregon Public BroadcastingJes Burns is a reporter for OPB's Science & Environment unit. She previously worked for the NPR affiliate KLCC in Eugene as a reporter and the local All Things Considered host. Jes has also worked as an editor and producer for Free Speech Radio News and has produced reports as a freelance producer for NPR, Sirius Radio's OutQ News and The Takeaway. Jes has a degree in English literature from Duke University and a master's degree from the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communications.
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Hundreds of miles west of Oregon, the Axial Seamount appears to be heading to another eruption. -
Five of the top illuminating, inspiring and just plain cool Pacific Northwest science stories from 鈥淎ll Science. No Fiction.鈥� -
Five of the top illuminating, inspiring and just plain cool Pacific Northwest science stories from 鈥淎ll Science. No Fiction.鈥� -
Five of the top illuminating, inspiring and just plain cool Pacific Northwest science stories from OPB's All Science. No Fiction. -
A breakthrough identification of distant signals in space is shedding new light on gravitational waves 鈥� one of science鈥檚 biggest mysteries. -
This month鈥檚 top five Pacific Northwest science stories from 鈥淎ll Science. No Fiction.鈥� -
Researchers at OHSU have developed a way to 3D print cells that can be used to understand cancer and could eventually provide new organs to people who need them. -
Northwest science news roundup: Really old humans, jellyfish jets, better cookies and winter slumberThis month鈥檚 top five Pacific Northwest science stories from 鈥淎ll Science. No Fiction.鈥� -
In this new monthly rundown from OPB, 鈥淎ll Science, No Fiction鈥� creator Jes Burns features the most interesting, wondrous and hopeful science coming out of the Pacific Northwest. -
Oregon-based aerospace outfit tests equipment for space agencies around the world on the coast and in Central Oregon. -
Oregon scientists say farmers can future-proof their livelihoods (and the planet) by pairing agriculture and solar power production in the same fields. They鈥檒l save water and make money, all while feeding and electrifying the world. -
The scientists aboard the research vessel Thompson are trying to answer complicated questions about what makes volcanos, specifically the Axial Seamount, tick. But sometimes the most serious scientific inquiry can face "crabotage."
