by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
In a feature for High Country News, Jane C. Hu (@jane_c_hu) writes about how extremists have mobilized against public health officials across the American West during the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials and their families have received personal threats, and extremists’...
by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
Ashli Blow (@ashliblow) writes for the Guardian about new research in Oregon on the impact of poor air quality on cows’ milk production. In recent years, wildfires have filled the air with harmful smoke — another insult to animals already stressed by high heat — and...
by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
ICYMI: This March 2020 story by Rachel Tompa (@Rachel_Tompa) for the Allen Institute explains how researchers demonstrated that asymmetry in neurons’ connections within the brain, established by chance in early development, explains why individual flies behave very...
by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
In a four-part series for TechCrunch, Mark Harris (@meharris) delves into Nuro, an autonomous, unoccupied delivery vehicle startup. Our journey with Harris’ in-depth reporting begins at Google, where its founders once worked. Then, we travel through the thicket of...
by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
Plans for the controversial Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region have hit a major roadblock, reports Ashley Braun (@ashleybraun) for Crosscut, with a deal recently negotiated by an area Alaska Native village corporation. The Pedro Bay Corporation plans to sell...
by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
The latest in Ensia’s “Troubled Waters” series about the safety of the water supply, this story by Maria Dolan (@mariaidolan) reveals that many communities around the U.S., especially in the Southwest, are drinking water contaminated by unsafe levels of arsenic....
