by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Earlier this year, Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) published a feature in Popular Mechanics on the noise pollution a cryptocurrency mine is inflicting on a small town in North Carolina. (The Open Notebook ran a behind-the-scenes piece on her story last month.) In her story, she...
by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
John Roach (@byjohnroach) writes for Microsoft about how hydrogen fuel cells could provide emission-free backup power for data centers. He visits a hydrogen generator in New York state, where shipping containers house the 3-megawatt fuel cell system that recently came...
by Matt Vivion | Mar 14, 2017 | Events, Past Events
In an era of “fake news” and “alternative facts,” how well can you draw the line on what counts as truth? What role do science writers play in spreading or exposing spurious science? On March 14, UW professors Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West...
by Matt Vivion | Apr 9, 2014 | Past Events
Has “big data” always existed, or has something changed in recent years to bring this catchphrase to the surface? What research is being conducted using big data, what repositories are available or being built, and what stories should science writers...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 2, 2014 | ScienceWire
Previous NSWA President Sally James (@jamesian) explains the conundrum—yottabytes of data that are more than any single researcher can handle—and the solution: Seattle. We have servers, scientists and smart technies, writes Sally in Seattle Business. New regional...
