#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Peeples: Open and Shut
We’ve been sheltering, distancing, and flattening the COVID-19 curve, Lynn Peeples writes for The Daily Beast. What’s next? Maybe cycling, Lynn says, but not on your trail or racing bike. Lynn talks to experts who make and interpret coronavirus models about continued...
Yonck: Is Intelligence Inevitable?
In his new book, Future Minds: The Rise of Intelligence from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe, Richard Yonck asks: Is intelligence the natural result of progress? Or an inevitable property of the universe? If you’re a reader of Stephen Hawking, Richard’s books...
Yan: Park and Swab
In a dispatch for the New York Times, direct from COVID-19 ground zero in Seattle, Wudan Yan reports on drive-through SARS-CoV-2 testing at the University of Washington. UW Medicine, Wudan writes, has been running sample collection in a campus parking garage since...
Scigliano: Farming Inky
Demand for octopus is rising, Eric Scigliano writes in National Geographic, in part for use in Italian, Japanese, and Spanish cuisine. As wild populations decline, aquaculture is an option. But many people object for ecological and ethical reasons, and because of our...
Berkowitz: Neon Goes Wild
Neon is usually such a quiet element. Don’t be fooled, Rachel Berkowitz explains in Physics Today (subscription required). The nobel gas has a wild side. It may drive stellar explosions that lead stars to become supernovas, avoiding the usual gravitational collapse...