by Susan Keown | Sep 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For VOA, Elise Cutts (@EliseCutts) explains vaccine-derived poliovirus — implicated in the recent outbreak in New York — and lays out the risks and benefits of the two forms of vaccine: inactivated polio vaccine, which is used in the U.S., and the oral polio vaccine,...
by Susan Keown | Sep 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For Fred Hutch News Service, Sabrina Richards wrote a two-part series about how we are all peppered with cells bearing cancer-causing mutations … and yet, most of us are cancer-free. She looks at how cancer biologists came to better understand the complex processes,...
by Susan Keown | Sep 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In The Atlantic, Eric Scigliano (@SeattleFlotsam) walks us through his recent decision to install a light-colored roof on his Seattle home to help cool his house and fight climate change — and investigates why these roofs aren’t more widely used given their clear...
by Susan Keown | Sep 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
Those who arrived from the East to farm the Great Plains in the 19th century did not have easy lives, and contemporary writers spoke of the mental illness, or “Prairie Madness,” experienced by many of them. James Gaines (@the_jmgaines) writes for Atlas Obscura about a...
by Susan Keown | Sep 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For Science News, Beth Geiger writes about research linking rapid reptile evolution to shifts in climate. Geiger describes how the scientists precisely measured characteristics of a thousand fossils in 20 countries, comparing them to historical data on sea-surface...
by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
New member Stephanie Warren Drimmer just published a science book for kids, “Ultimate Book of the Future: Incredible, Ingenious, and Totally Real Tech That Will Change Life as You Know It.” For ages 8-12, the book covers the cutting-edge technologies that will build...
