by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
In the first issue of Strata, Abby Metzger and Nancy Steinberg look back at Oregon’s devastating 2020 fires and what that and other conflagrations in the state’s history can teach scientists about the wildfires in our future. They examine how climate change causes the...
by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
Jane C. Hu (@jane_c_hu) writes for Biographic about how the cicadas that appeared in such numbers this summer on the East Coast nevertheless seem to be in decline. Habitat destruction, pesticides and climate change are threats but, she explains, the kind of population...
by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
Christie Wilcox (@NerdyChristie) and her daughter recently brought home the girl’s first pet, “Sky Banana,” a lavender Betta fish. But these creatures offer more than human amusement. Writing for The Scientist, Wilcox takes us from Sky Banana into research labs, which...
by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
Bitcoin is responsible for 0.5% of all the electricity consumed in the world — but why? Clayton Aldern (@compatibilism), in a video for Grist, explains how blockchain works and why bitcoin’s blockchain implementation burns so much energy. He explores this...
by Susan Keown | Aug 3, 2021 | ScienceWire
The Duwamish River became the industrial core of a prosperous Seattle, writes Robin Lindley (@robinlindley2) for EarthX, but the river and the marginalized people who live along its banks suffered the consequences. After a segment of the lower Duwamish was declared a...
