by Susan Keown | Nov 19, 2023 | ScienceWire
Pee is a remarkable resource. Full of nutrients that are vital for plant growth, and often home to chemically active microorganisms, urine has a range of relatively untapped powers, Jenny Morber writes for Leaps.org. Morber highlights work by scientists and engineers...
by Susan Keown | Oct 11, 2023 | ScienceWire
In Scientific American, Ashli Blow (@ashliblow) takes us to California’s Central Valley to explain how a fungus in soil is making people — largely farmworkers and construction workers — sick with a condition known as “Valley Fever.” Those who fall ill experience...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Sean Nealon (@seannealon) profiles Dr. Al Haunold, a pioneering researcher and breeder of hop varieties that are now widely used in the craft beer industry. The profile in The Oregon Stater (page 64), a magazine of Oregon State University, discusses Haunold’s legacy...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
Works by two NSWA members — Jane C. Hu and Julia Rosen — are in the 2022 edition of “The Best American Science and Nature Writing” series, out this month from HarperCollins. The book features nonfiction writing published in an American publication in 2021. Hu’s...
by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
Writing for Mongabay, new member Liz Kimbrough (@lizkimbrough_) writes about new research that shows that while shade-grown coffee won’t support all bird life, set-asides of intact, non-agricultural forests by coffee plantations help preserve more species of birds,...
