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 | Aug 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
For the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Karyn Hede (@KarynHede) writes about the lab’s new flow battery, which maintained its ability to store and release energy for more than a year of continuous charge and discharge — a record.Designed for energy storage on...
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 | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
Peter Fairley’s (@pfairley) latest piece for InvestigateWest’s “Decarbonizing Cascadia” series discusses the movement for a stronger, coordinated electrical grid along the West Coast. A system built on centralized control centers with longer power lines, and boosted...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
While wind turbines generate clean power, they can be deadly to birds. Eric Stavney writes about how researchers reduced deaths of some species at one facility in Norway by painting one blade per turbine black. His story for The Norweigan American discusses why birds...