by Susan Keown | Sep 30, 2024 | ScienceWire
In a piece for The Atlantic, Eric Scigliano stumbles on a natural experiment in his Seattle neighborhood: residential blocks built, unusually, with no streetlights. He compares the crime rates on these blocks and nearby lit blocks and investigates what cities around...
by Susan Keown | Jun 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
James Urton (@jamesurton) of UW News writes about new research showing a surprising effect of climate: baby name popularity in the U.S. The prevalence of first names that are months or seasons is strongly correlated with the latitude of the state in which they were...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
Conservatives are increasingly skeptical about science, reports Alan Boyle. (Paradoxically, he says, they are not likely to believe the results of the American Sociological Review study.) Boyle is the msnbc.com science editor and an official NSWA “friend of the...
