by Susan Keown | Jun 29, 2024 | ScienceWire
For USA Today’s Fact Check team, Kate S. Petersen debunks a viral Facebook post that misrepresented new research on Antarctic ice shelves. The study looked at a subset of ice shelves and found they are growing, but the post conflates the ice shelves with the overall...
by Susan Keown | Jun 29, 2024 | ScienceWire
For High Country News, Natalia Mesa takes us on a tour of some of the West’s wetlands, whose ecological importance is belied by the fact that many are not only understudied — they are unmapped. She profiles new research on the Hoh Rainforest’s wetlands, which are...
by Susan Keown | Jun 29, 2024 | ScienceWire
For a feature in Nature, Alexandra Witze joined a NASA team on its biggest dress rehearsal for Artemis III, the next human mission to the moon. In the high desert of northern Arizona at night, astronauts practiced walking in spacesuits, conducting field geology, and...
by Susan Keown | Jun 29, 2024 | ScienceWire
In a feature for The Atlantic, Jane C. Hu looks at the decriminalization of marijuana to shine a light on what may become of the movement toward legalization of some psychedelics. Despite the massive strides it has made toward legal use, marijuana still is federally...
by Susan Keown | May 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
A hundred years after the last credible sighting of a grizzly bear in California, a new set of studies is challenging the bear’s longstanding fearsome reputation, writes Ian Rose for the Washington Post. The new research overturns longstanding conventional wisdom,...
by Susan Keown | May 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For the University of Washington’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Wayne Gillam writes about a UW team that examined just why running, walking and jumping are so tough for robots outside of tightly controlled lab environments. Compared to their...
