by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Sean Nealon (@seannealon) profiles Dr. Al Haunold, a pioneering researcher and breeder of hop varieties that are now widely used in the craft beer industry. The profile in The Oregon Stater (page 64), a magazine of Oregon State University, discusses Haunold’s legacy...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Earlier this year, Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) published a feature in Popular Mechanics on the noise pollution a cryptocurrency mine is inflicting on a small town in North Carolina. (The Open Notebook ran a behind-the-scenes piece on her story last month.) In her story, she...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for Science Alert, Carla Cassella (@carlycassella) highlights chaotic new patterns in jet streams, the currents of air that wrap around the planet. The currents are splitting at such an extreme rate that the experts Cassella quotes used words like “insane” to...
by Susan Keown | Jun 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
For GeekWire, Richard Yonck (@ryonck) writes about a new open generative language model by and for scientists that is being created by the Allen Institute for AI. The first-of-its kind model will be designed to advance scientific understanding and discovery, providing...
by Susan Keown | Jun 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
In the latest issue of Strata, Abby Metzger (@APMMetzger) and Nancy Steinberg (@NDSteinberg) write about women in polar science, a field women have broken into in great numbers, but in which they still often encounter a frosty environment. The story elevates the...
by Susan Keown | Jun 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
James Urton (@jamesurton) of UW News writes about new research showing a surprising effect of climate: baby name popularity in the U.S. The prevalence of first names that are months or seasons is strongly correlated with the latitude of the state in which they were...
