by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
With a look back at the 1918 flu pandemic, Bryn Nelson (@SeattleBryn) asks what lessons we might draw from that pandemic for facing COVID-19 today. His story for the journal Cancer Cytopathology’s CytoSource column shows how measures like mask mandates have saved...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
While wind turbines generate clean power, they can be deadly to birds. Eric Stavney writes about how researchers reduced deaths of some species at one facility in Norway by painting one blade per turbine black. His story for The Norweigan American discusses why birds...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Nancy Steinberg writes about a high-tech advance in commercial crabbing for Oregon Stater, the Oregon State University alumni magazine. The crab pots that local fishing crews crank into the sea have a small oxygen sensor attached to the side, to locate areas of...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Even in remote West Texas, Catherine Arnold writes, an observatory’s stargazing powers can be threatened by city lights. For Alcalde, the University of Texas alumni magazine, Catherine interviews the coordinator of an initiative that protects the night sky for...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
In Audubon, Rebecca Heisman tells how birdwatching began as her 2020 New Year’s resolution but became much more meaningful over the months. From a bald eagle sighting on January 1, Rebecca takes us through her year and relates how birding kept her connected to the...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
For Science News, Beth Geiger writes about an undersea mystery: A possible supervolcano lurking under Alaska’s Aleutian islands. Geophysicists are piecing together data from different sources including satellites and gas analysis to hypothesize about a possible...
