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...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
David B. Williams’ (@geologywriter) new book, “Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound,” takes us on a tour through nature and history to understand how humans have interacted with, and transformed, the waters of the Washington state coastline. The book...
by Susan Keown | Apr 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
In a three-part series for Oregon Public Broadcasting, Jes Burns takes a look back at that state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Her stories in the series cover the state’s successful (by U.S. standards) response, which could make herd immunity take longer to...
