by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
Hundreds of defendants across Washington are in a legal limbo, writes Esmy Jimenez (@esmyjimenez) for the Seattle Times, as they wait for a psychiatric bed to open in a state hospital. Despite a federal court settlement, the state still struggles to get defendants...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
Works by two NSWA members — Jane C. Hu and Julia Rosen — are in the 2022 edition of “The Best American Science and Nature Writing” series, out this month from HarperCollins. The book features nonfiction writing published in an American publication in 2021. Hu’s...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
For Wired, K.C. Cole’s (@kccole314) essay, “The Unnatural Future of Physics,” explores the surprising connections between the Higgs boson, inclusivity in science and improvisational group rapping. Physicists still can’t explain why the Higgs is 100 million billion...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
For the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Tom Rickey (@trickeyPNNL) writes about new research using nanotechnology to detect the coronavirus in air. The technology uses micelles — bubble-like molecular structures — whose surfaces are designed to react to...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
In the National Association of Science Writers’ 2022 Science in Society Awards competition, Julia Rosen (@1juliarosen) won in the Science Reporting category for her November 2021 story in High Country News on how heat waves change ecosystems. The judges wrote that...
