by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
Now on sale from Penguin RandomHouse is Vince Beiser’s new book, “Power Metal: The Race for the Resources that Will Shape the Future.” From the publisher: “The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental...
by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
A story in Nature by new member Emma Marris sheds light on the archeological mystery of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, which flourished for over two thousand years at the end of the Stone Age in parts of what is now Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania. Archeological clues...
by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
In her feature in Hakai Magazine, new member Adrienne Mason embeds us in the Canadian Coast Guard’s Coastal Nations Search and Rescue program, which formally recognizes a longstanding reality: Coastal Indigenous peoples are often the first rescuers on the scene when...
by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
New member Amanda Monthei, a former wildlands firefighter, is the sole producer and host of the monthly Life With Fire podcast, which explores how humans can coexist better with this destructive — and regenerative — force. Her most recent episode, the last of a series...
by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
New member Malissa Rodenburg cowrote a new piece in Run about how air quality affects runners. She and her coauthor take a look at what can be in dirty air and what scientists know of how the various gases and particles affect different systems of the body. So what’s...
