by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Where there’s an app there’s a way, writes Kyle Serikawa (@kyleserikawa) in Xconomy. Right now, activity trackers like the Fitbit and apps like Moves nudge some people to walk more, take breaks from sitting, and remember to exercise. But app developers...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Roberta Kwok (@robertakwok) covers the latest science stories for Conservation This Week, including news from PNAS about disease-fighting West African prawns. A schistosomiasis outbreak after a dam was erected on the Senegal River led to experiments that discovered...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Didn’t we all think of Sandi Doughton’s book Full Rip: 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest when the New Yorker article about Seattle earthquakes went viral? So did Dan Savage of The Stranger, who had a lively Q&A with Sandi about...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Neuroscience is a hot field but it has a long history, writes Robin Lindley for History News Network. In the latest in a series of interviews with authors of science and medical books, Robin talks with Dr. Mitchell Glickstein, formerly of the University of Washington...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
Trees are part of the Northwest legacy, writes Andrea Watts in Seattle Business. And a new product—cross-laminated timber, or CLT—is making wood a sustainable building option for highrise office buildings, apartments, and hotels. Could CLT replace Starbucks as the...
