by Susan Keown | Jul 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Madeline Ostrander’s (@madelinevo) new book, “At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth,” shows us how Americans are working to protect the places they call home from the ravages of climate change. A mix of reported stories and lyrical essays,...
by Susan Keown | Jul 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
In her new book, “The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain is Different and How to Understand Yours,” Dr. Chantel Prat (@ChantelPratPhD), a University of Washington scientist, explains the unique features of everyone’s brains and why these differences are important....
by Susan Keown | Jul 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Ashi Blow (@ashliblow) writes for Crosscut about the impacts of climate change on the mental health of people in the Seattle area, as floods become commonplace in South Park, wildfire smoke causes breathing difficulties and forces people inside in late summer, and we...
by Susan Keown | Jul 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Writing for Oregon Public Broadcasting, Jes Burns (@radiojes) tells us about the “Smellcopter,” a machine that uses the antennae of the Carolina sphinx moth to detect odors, and could one day locate dangers such as chemical leaks or sniff out missing people. Unlike an...
by Susan Keown | Jul 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Ian Rose (@ianrosewrites) writes for Hakai Magazine about how scientists are using more than a century of menus from restaurants in West Coast cities, such as the venerable Hotel Vancouver in B.C., to understand how the ocean has changed during that period. A century...
