by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
The Southern Resident orcas have strong social networks, writes Sarah DeWeerdt for Encyclopedia of Puget Sound, from the Puget Sound Institute, University of Washington. Sarah’s piece tells detailed family stories about orcas that bond in matriarchal groups,...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Eugenics, frontal lobotomies, and a link (inaccurate) between Huntington disease and the Salem witch trials. It’s all in Robin Lindley’s conversation with Dr. Tom Bird, a medical pioneer and University of Washington researcher. For History News Network,...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Vitamin D is essential. Or at least that’s what we all thought. Wudan Yan, for the New York Times, writes about the mystifying case of a patient with no detectable circulating vitamin D in her blood. The woman had bone disease, but experts thought that with her...
by Chris Tachibana | May 3, 2019 | ScienceWire
Take a journey with NSWA Board Member Wudan Yan to Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. In a news feature for Nature, Wudan describes how radiation exposure from Soviet-era nuclear tests still affects the local population. She documents the effects on multiple generations of...
by Chris Tachibana | May 3, 2019 | ScienceWire
For The Oregonian, NSWA Board Member Carol Cruzan Morton describes suicide patterns in the Northwest: They’re persistently high and rising. Carol talks to experts about the many factors thought to affect suicide rates, from the western culture to the seasons....
by Chris Tachibana | May 3, 2019 | ScienceWire
Bsal is what salamander-savvy biologists call Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans. Andrea Watts (@WattsInTheWoods) writes about the fungus that is threatening amphibians worldwide. In Science Findings from the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station,...
