by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
News about sarin gas is usually not good. But Ian Haydon has a rare positive story about chemical weapons in a piece for The Conversation that was picked up by Scientific American. Ian, a protein designer, writes about how scientists in his field are using enzyme...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
Follow Patricia Guthrie for all your Whidbey Island news. In the Everett Daily Herald, she tells about a three-person team that is taking action against opioid abuse. For the Whidbey News-Times she breaks news that any resident already intuitively knows: no county in...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
Geologists actually call it river piracy, writes Hannah Hickey, when one stream takes over another. Presumably, the geoscientists don’t yell “Shiver me timbers!” when they see it, but it’s hard to know because, Hannah writes, it happens...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
Trees remove carbon-containing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, writes Andrea Watts. But scientists want to know exactly how much carbon we’re talking about. Andrea provides the impressive numbers for Washington and Oregon forests in a report for Science...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Bryn Nelson follows leukemia patient Chris through an unusual stem cell transplant. Instead of receiving adult bone marrow, Chris was treated with umbilical cord blood. In this deeply compassionate, fully reported story for Mosaic, Bryn shows that the process...
