by Susan Keown | Dec 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
For the Tennessee Lookout, Ashli Blow (@ashliblow) co-authored a feature on the long-term impact of a chemical plant on its Memphis neighborhood and the people who live there. The company, Velsicol, still technically operates the plant in order to clean up the “legacy...
by Susan Keown | Dec 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
Engineers are working on robots that can carry out surgical procedures without the direct control of a surgeon, writes James Gaines (@the_jmgaines) for Knowable Magazine. Total autonomy may be a long ways off, however, given the vast biological complexity of the...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
Hundreds of defendants across Washington are in a legal limbo, writes Esmy Jimenez (@esmyjimenez) for the Seattle Times, as they wait for a psychiatric bed to open in a state hospital. Despite a federal court settlement, the state still struggles to get defendants...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
Works by two NSWA members — Jane C. Hu and Julia Rosen — are in the 2022 edition of “The Best American Science and Nature Writing” series, out this month from HarperCollins. The book features nonfiction writing published in an American publication in 2021. Hu’s...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
For Wired, K.C. Cole’s (@kccole314) essay, “The Unnatural Future of Physics,” explores the surprising connections between the Higgs boson, inclusivity in science and improvisational group rapping. Physicists still can’t explain why the Higgs is 100 million billion...
by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
For the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Tom Rickey (@trickeyPNNL) writes about new research using nanotechnology to detect the coronavirus in air. The technology uses micelles — bubble-like molecular structures — whose surfaces are designed to react to...
