by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
In her first feature for UW News, Sarah McQuate writes about a new but now common issue for both professors and students: online classes. Remote teaching is hard enough for lecture courses. How, Sarah asks, are professors reworking their classes with labs, fieldwork,...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Preprint sites like bioRxiv get coronavirus results out quickly, Wudan Yan writes for the New York Times. But with only a simple screen and without peer review, research papers on bioRxiv and medRxiv may lead readers astray. What could possibly go wrong? Wudan gives...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
We’ve been sheltering, distancing, and flattening the COVID-19 curve, Lynn Peeples writes for The Daily Beast. What’s next? Maybe cycling, Lynn says, but not on your trail or racing bike. Lynn talks to experts who make and interpret coronavirus models about continued...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
In his new book, Future Minds: The Rise of Intelligence from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe, Richard Yonck asks: Is intelligence the natural result of progress? Or an inevitable property of the universe? If you’re a reader of Stephen Hawking, Richard’s books...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
In a dispatch for the New York Times, direct from COVID-19 ground zero in Seattle, Wudan Yan reports on drive-through SARS-CoV-2 testing at the University of Washington. UW Medicine, Wudan writes, has been running sample collection in a campus parking garage since...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Demand for octopus is rising, Eric Scigliano writes in National Geographic, in part for use in Italian, Japanese, and Spanish cuisine. As wild populations decline, aquaculture is an option. But many people object for ecological and ethical reasons, and because of our...
