by Susan Keown | Feb 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) received an honorable mention in NSWA’s 2021 Best of the Northwest Science Writing Awards (journalism award) for her April 2021 story in The Atlantic about how pandemic travel restrictions have affected researchers who typically conduct fieldwork...
by Susan Keown | Feb 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
New member Ian Rose (@ianrosewrites) writes for Earth Island Journal about an alarming decline of the iconic bigleaf maple in Washington state. All over the state, people had been reporting trees losing leaves or simply just dying, and the reason for the devastation...
by Susan Keown | Feb 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
Sylvia Kantor writes for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Rocky Mountain Research Station’s “Science You Can Use Bulletin” about an increase in cases in which forest resilience and recovery are pushed beyond a breaking point by wildfire. As a result of continued severe...
by Susan Keown | Feb 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
What can pathologists learn from an octopus? Plenty, writes Bryn Nelson (@SeattleBryn) in a piece he coauthored in CytoSource. Cancerous tumors are such wily foes that studying cephalopods’ different forms of intelligence and problem-solving approaches could yield...
by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In his first book, “A Field Guide to Thinking Errors: Using Neuroscience to Classify, Avoid, and Exploit Our Biases,” André Golard explains that all people are prone to errors in thinking, such as confirmation bias and loss aversion, and offers readers tools to...
by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For the American Physical Society’s Physics magazine, Rachel Berkowitz explains how cellular networks can offer critical rainfall data to the smallholder farmers across Africa who feed most of the continent but lack access to weather-prediction systems used in...
