by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
Wudan Yan scored the cover story of High Country News with a feature about an ecological mystery: What brought river otters to the Beartooth Plateau of Wyoming and Montana, where they’ve never been observed before? To find out, Wudan @wudanyan follows an ecologist who...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
Andrea Watts looks at a neglected section of the carbon cycle for Science Findings from the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. We revere trees because they’re large and they sequester CO2. Trickling below them, though, are headwater streams...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
For @NBCNewsMACH, Lynne Peeples reports the astonishing and possibly alarming findings about our portable technology: How many of us own smartphones, how often we interact with them, and what it might be doing to our cognitive and social skills. Don’t despair, though....
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 3, 2018 | ScienceWire, Uncategorized
Your goat photos might help science, Rebecca Heisman writes. The #MountainGoatMoltProject that Rebecca profiles in The Revelator isn’t looking for just any goat pics, though. Rebecca (@r_heisman) describes how researcher Katarzyna Nowak is analyzing photos of Oreamnos...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
Julia Goldstein has two recent stories of new technology that benefits business and the environment. In Seattle Business Magazine, Julia (@jlfgoldstein) writes about a startup that puts low-cost sensors in sewers to monitor stormwater and track potentially polluted...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
Feeling the effects of opioids requires more than just taking a pill, Wudan Yan writes. In Nature Medicine, she reports on studies showing that, in mice at least, the bacterial composition of the gut influences sensitivity to morphine and related drugs. Read the...
