by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Earth Day and the March for Science are coming up. It’s a good time to read Clayton Aldern’s piece, “Can cities lead the #resistance?” For Crosscut, Clayton considers if cities should use their resources and finances to send political messages....
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Wudan Yan’s piece for Nature could change your mind about palm oil. This common ingredient in food and household products has a bad reputation because it’s linked to the loss of rainforests. Wudan reports on plant researchers in Southeast Asia who have a...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
A town in Kansas with 650 residents, writes Brett Walton (@waltonwater), needs $2.4 million to remove dangerous levels of nitrate in its water. In Circle of Blue, Brett reports that Pretty Prairie isn’t the only farm town with this problem. Agricultural areas...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Dennis Schatz is prepping us for the major solar eclipse this summer. His new children’s book, When the Sun Goes Dark, enlists Diana and Sammy, their grandparents, and some ping-pong balls to explain what will happen to the sun on August 21, 2017. Dennis also...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
Washington State University scientists, writes Eric Sorensen, are using cutting-edge methods to learn about 700-year-old technology. Archaeologists are probing decades of data from cliff dwellings in New Mexico to figure out why they were suddenly abandoned. On...
