by Susan Keown | Jun 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Writing for Nature, Lynne Peeples (@LynnePeeps) asks whether it’s too soon to lift mask mandates. She reviews scientific studies on mask effectiveness conducted around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the roles that community norms, enforcement and...
by Susan Keown | May 17, 2021 | ScienceWire
Sandi Doughton (@SandiDoughton) takes readers behind the scenes of midwifery in her new book, “Becoming a Midwife,” as she shadows veteran midwife Mary Lou Kopas of UW Medicine. Doughton shows us Kopas’ path into her career and how she helps her patients have healthy...
by Susan Keown | May 17, 2021 | ScienceWire
For NPR’s Goats and Soda, Joanne Silberner (@jsilberner) interviews scientists who argue that COVID-19 inspired a crush of scientifically wasteful clinical trials as the world sprang into action to find solutions to the pandemic. There’s a better, though more...
by Susan Keown | May 17, 2021 | ScienceWire
ICYMI: In her Best of the Northwest-winning story for bioGraphic, Virginia Gewin (@VirginiaGewin) shows us why ranches may be Florida’s best hope for saving endangered species like the Florida panther and the burrowing owl that rely on lands that would otherwise be...
by Susan Keown | May 17, 2021 | ScienceWire
Michele Solis writes for Chemical & Engineering News about how the pandemic has disrupted undergraduates’ chemistry education. Virtual labs are less than ideal for learning the hands-on aspects of the discipline, and many students (though not all) find it harder...
by Susan Keown | May 17, 2021 | ScienceWire
While deepfake videos — AI-fabricated video footage that looks real to an untrained eye — are more well-known, Richard Yonck (@ryonck) explains in GeekWire that faked maps and location data also pose serious risks by abetting espionage and propaganda (and, on the...
