by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
David B. Williams uses the centennial of Robert F. Scott’s final journal entry to explain what is happening to the bodies of Scott and his team who froze to death near the South Pole in 1912. They are in a tent in a snow cairn that is slowly traveling toward the...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
Get a sane, objective guide to the Obamacare Supreme Court case—what’s happened so far and what the ruling will mean when it comes in June—from Michael McCarthy, M.D. His web service, Seattle/LocalHealthGuide, gathers and presents this and other independent medical...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
iphone, iPad, iPS* cells, step aside for iGEM, writes Sally James for UW Today. The annual synthetic biology competition was won by a University of Washington team in 2011. (Wait, NSWA president Sally James does more than run NSWA, represent us, and arrange fabulous...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2012 | ScienceWire
Great project but no funding? Michael C. Bradbury, former NSWA board member, says take it to the people! In a story on crowdfunding research at his REALScience site, Bradbury uses video, photos and links to explain how scientists get grassroots funding for their...
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...
