by Susan Keown | Dec 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Jenny Morber (@JRMorber) provides us with the delightfully vivid description of whale excrement we never knew we needed in her recent story for Slate. She discusses new research suggesting that baleen whales defecate much more than previously thought — great news for...
by Susan Keown | Nov 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
Julia Rosen’s (@1juliarosen) January 2020 story for The Atlantic about invasive earthworms is featured in the just-released 2021 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Rosen delves into the lives of our neighborhood annelids and lets us all in on a...
by Susan Keown | Nov 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
New NSWA member Evan Bush (@evanbush) reports for NBC News on research that shows just how vulnerable the increasing numbers of people living in cities are to extreme heat and humidity driven by climate change. Since 1983, global extreme heat exposure in cities nearly...
by Susan Keown | Nov 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
As a child in math class, KC Cole (@kccole314) found satisfaction in canceling, the process of reducing fractions to the smallest denominator. In her recent first-person essay for Wired, Cole reflects on the connection between basic arithmetic concepts and humans’...
by Susan Keown | Nov 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
Strange patterns can arise in the pebbly ground of cold landscapes. Now, writes Hannah Hickey (@hickeyh), scientists can explain how these patterns of circles, lines or gently undulating shapes form. The rocks are slowly pushed into place by the random growth of...
by Susan Keown | Nov 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
Love pizza? Really love pizza? Then you’re in luck. NSWA member Stephanie Swane is the publisher for Modernist Cuisine (@ModCuisine), which just put out its latest, “Modernist Pizza.” The multi-volume work covers the history and science of this delightful dish, the...
