by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
In her new book, “Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home,” Lynda V. Mapes (@LyndaVMapes) documents the natural history of the Southern Resident orcas that live in the Puget Sound and the threats that the remaining 74 whales in this group face from habitat degradation, food...
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
COVID-19 forced courtrooms across the U.S. to carry out justice virtually. Eric Scigliano (@SeattleFlotsam) explores in The Atlantic how this change — which is here, to some extent, to stay — could have major impacts on how justice is served in this country. He...
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Despite its ubiquity, dark matter has eluded all attempts to detect it directly. Mara Johnson-Groh writes in Symmetry Magazine about a new “paleodetector” proposal to analyze ancient rock samples for traces of dark matter. She explains how even a tiny sample of a...
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
For Geekwire’s Health Tech podcast, Lisa Stiffler (@lisa_stiffler) talks to Sanath Kumar Ramesh, whose son Raghav was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder. As a software engineer, Ramesh is oriented toward problem-solving. So when Raghav’s doctors told the family...
by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Writing for Nature, Lynne Peeples (@LynnePeeps) asks whether it’s too soon to lift mask mandates. She reviews scientific studies on mask effectiveness conducted around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the roles that community norms, enforcement and...
