by Chris Tachibana | Jun 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
Hannah Hickey (@hickeyh), University of Washington News & Information, reports on two glaciology papers that made a figurative splash, including one that demonstrates that an Antarctic ice sheet is washing away before our eyes. Although we hear about climate...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
Emily Krieger continues to bust myths and entertain kids with her National Geographic Kids Myths Busted series (sequel now available). The first book earned the Children’s Choice Book of the Year Award for fifth/sixth grade and Emily was kind enough to give a...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
Good news from Bryn Nelson (@SeattleBryn) about climate change? Writing for Nature, Bryn says that extreme weather, flooding, and fires are cataclysmic for communities but they’re creating jobs for natural-hazards risk analysts. Governments, financial institutions and...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
Is that Alan Boyle (@b0yle) of nbcnews.com about to blast off? Alan reports from the cockpit…or maybe its the home theatre…of the Dragon V2 spaceship from SpaceX, a company founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The ship is a prototype of a NASA shuttle to the International...
by Chris Tachibana | May 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
Carry on, explorers! Virginia Emery reports that true field biologists still exist. They’re out in the forests and deserts and plains with their binoculars and nets and magnifying glasses. Writing for Berkeley Science Review, Virginia talks with biologists who step...