by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Tamara Sellman has good news for people with obstructive sleep apnea: oral appliance therapy (OAT). Tamara explains that OAT could replace continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices, which many people dislike, even though they can help with a healthy night’s...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Yes, they’re adorable. But Beth Geiger has a story for Nature Conservancy magazine about a sobering topic: threats to Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits, which are North America’s smallest bunnies. The little guys are back from the brink of extinction but the rescue has...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Hillary Lauren, Science Slug, reports from a tour to the NASA Space Center in Houston. Check out Hillary’s photos of massive rockets, old-school computer consoles, and that blue Texas sky. Visit again later when Hillary promises to tell us about moon rocks and women...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
In The Atlantic, NSWA Vice President Jane C. Hu writes about a burgeoning populist uprising. Or at least, a group of scientists who are pushing academic publisher Elsevier to lower fees for open access—making journal articles freely available online. Many researchers...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2016 | ScienceWire
Priscilla Long is tracing the line from LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, to Lucas, her five-year-old grandnephew. In “How Chemistry Became Biology” for American Scholar (subscription required), Priscilla @PriscillaLong explores the genetic connectedness of...
