by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
On the Washington Coast, Terri Hansen writes, residents of Indian Nation villages and members of local tribes are adapting to climate change. In her article for Yes! magazine, Terri (@TerriHansen) describes how clams, salmon, and other resources that are integral to...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Many failed clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease therapies, Charlotte Shubert writes, focused on peptide amyloid-beta, which forms clumps in the brain. Charlotte reports in the Journal Club section of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that because...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
A real-life spy operation is behind Mark Harris’s report for OneZero, a Medium publication about tech and science. In an exclusive story, Mark @meharris describes how the U.S. government deployed a shadowy security unit—Team Telecom—into Vietnam after learning that a...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Over a month this spring, Wudan Yan filed four reports from Myanmar for Mongabay, a nonprofit conservation and environmental science news platform. Wudan (@wudanyan) looked at the environmental threat of harvesting mangroves for illegal coal production and a possible...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Activists get technical in a story by Wayt Gibbs for Anthropocene magazine. Low-cost instruments and abundant ingenuity are democratizing surveillance, Wayt writes. The examples are brilliant: crowdsourcing the identification and location of fracking ponds with...
