by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
What links tree rings and avalanches? Molly Tankersley explains, for Scientific American (@sciam). In Alaska, researchers are studying the rings to learn about the snowslides to protect Juneau, which has the country’s highest urban avalanche potential. Molly is a...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
High-tech methods make de-extinction possible, Ashley Braun writes. But how exactly does that work? And does it work out for the animals that are a genetic likeness of the extinct species? In Longreads (@Longreads), Ashley dives into the complex biological and...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Diane Mapes goes beyond the alarming headlines about teen vaping deaths to explain the risks, public policies, and research to address the problem. For Hutch News Stories, Diane writes about a smartphone app developed at Fred Hutch (@fredhutch) to help teens and young...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
Rebecca Heisman didn’t expect her family’s first camping trip with their 13-month-old son to be relaxing. And it wasn’t. But, as Rebecca writes in High Country News, her second thoughts weren’t because of her kid’s high-energy curiosity on the trail. Instead, the trip...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
Lush landscaping takes high-tech monitoring, Elizabeth Sharpe writes for University of Washington Information Technology. In UW-IT Stories, Elizabeth describes how only three people keep the 650-acre campus—including athletic fields—properly irrigated without wasting...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
Elizabeth Bacher works at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, so impressing her with conservation work isn’t easy. In a post for the zoo’s blog, though, Elizabeth writes about seeing “amazing” community-based conservation firsthand in Kenya. The post also has...
