by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
New member Cat Bohannon is currently on tour to promote her recent book, “Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution,” which is a sweeping history of the human species viewed through the lens of the female mammalian body. The book offers a...
by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
In Scientific American, new member Sharmila Kuthunur writes about the frothing, sloshing surface of the red giant star Betelgeuse — the right shoulder of Orion — and new research modeling its unusual, colossal bubbles. She explains how the eruption and subsiding of...
by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
In a piece for Nautilus, Sarah DeWeerdt writes about the long-term impact of whaling on the deep-sea ecosystems that depend on “whale fall” — whale corpses that settle in the depths, bringing massive amounts of nutrients with them. These fallen cetaceans nourish...
by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
Rachel Tompa covers new research for the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center on the inordinate cancer risk suffered by people with particular environmental exposures due to their professions (such as firefighters and farmers) or bad luck...
by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
For High Country News, Sarah Trent focuses on the way that Vancouver, Wash., city officials communicated with the public about the results of their tests on the city’s water for the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS and the risks they pose, especially to young kids....
by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For the Allen Institute, Jake Siegel writes about how populations of T cells change over the lifespan, shedding new light on why we all become more vulnerable to infection as we age. Using a new method developed at the institute, the researchers discovered a new...
