by Susan Keown | May 2, 2022 | ScienceWire
In 2023, Rebecca Heisman (@r_heisman) will publish her book Flight Paths: a deep dive into the science behind the techniques scientists use to study bird migration, and the stories of the people who developed them. In the meantime, Heisman offers a bit of a preview...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 3, 2020 | ScienceWire
For History News Network, Robin Lindley and Steve Olson have a wide-ranging discussion about Steve’s new book, The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age. Their conversation is moves from Steve’s hometown near the nuclear facility in Hanford,...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
We know our ABCs by sight, but could we learn them as machine-generated tones? Elle O’Brien writes about a 1930s-era project to use a machine to convert text into an audible alphabet. Try listening yourself, using the clip in Elle’s piece, as you read (in the...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
Get work from two NSWA members with just one click. Robin Lindley interviewed Steve Olson in December about Steve’s book Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens. The weekend the mountain blew held special significance for Robin, who elicits volcanic facts and...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Neuroscience is a hot field but it has a long history, writes Robin Lindley for History News Network. In the latest in a series of interviews with authors of science and medical books, Robin talks with Dr. Mitchell Glickstein, formerly of the University of Washington...
