by Susan Keown | May 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For the University of Oregon, Leila Okhata writes about new virtual reality research that shows how engaging people in stories told via 360-degree video or immersive virtual spaces increases their reported sense of closeness to an environmental problem that is not an...
by Susan Keown | Jan 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
New member Laurel Hamers (@Arboreal_Laurel) writes for the University of Oregon about the jet propulsion used by a gelatinous sea creature, Nanomia bijuga. Hamers describes how this tiny, colonial creature with no central nervous system nevertheless uses many...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
At the University of Oregon, volcanology started 50 years ago, Jim Barlow writes. And what is now the Oregon Center for Volcanology was originally led by a Nicaraguan coffee farmer turned researcher. Jim’s story on the University of Oregon website is rich with...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
They’re pyrosomes, aka sea pickles, writes Jim Barlow for Around the O, the University of Oregon’s news hub. These colonies of small organisms—which can be more than 2 feet long—might not seem so exotic to Oregonians in the future. To find out why, read Jim’s story...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
References to both the late Massachusetts senator and the mighty Duck football team show up in a story about the cells responsible for a rare but deadly brain cancer by Jim Barlow, University of Oregon director of science and research communications.
