by Chris Tachibana | Sep 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Wayt Gibbs (@WaytGibbs) has the quintessential 2020 podcasts for Scientific American’s Science Talk. Wayt talks with medical ethicist Arthur Caplan about how we decide who’s first in line for COVID-19 vaccines. Then Wayt, a writer and editor for Modernist Bread,...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
SARS-CoV-2 is not the only human virus linked to bats, writes Sara Zaske for WSU Insider. More are on the way. Sara reports on forward-looking Washington State University research to understand and stop these emerging viruses. For more from Sara (@wsuzaske), check out...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Freelancers have amazing know-how but not always about business. Wudan Yan and Jenni Gritters launched their podcast, The Writers’ Co-op, to offer freelance creatives practical advice about taxes, marketing, time management, and more. The podcast will be back...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
How do we monitor the Puget Sound for contaminants? Starre Vartan, writing for the Natural Resources Defense Council has the answer: A mussel smoothie. Read Starre’s report on how volunteers sample (then blend) the mollusks to detect a range of water contaminants from...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Patients with malaria have symptoms that cycle, writes Jake Buehler for ScienceNews. But the regular return of fever and chills every 24 to 72 hours is not dictated by the internal clock of the human host. Jake reports that the unicellular Plasmodium parasites seem to...
