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...
by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
Nancy Steinberg writes about a new scientific partnership to investigate connections between human-made debris, zooplankton and gray whales. In the cover story in Oregon Stater, the magazine of the Oregon State University Alumni Association, she describes researchers’...
by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For The Seattle Times, Lynda Mapes (@lyndavmapes) writes that Seattle City Light is seeking to relicense three hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River that provide one-fifth of the city’s power, which would extend the dams’ use for decades. But as salmon, and the...
