by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
For NBC Mach, Bryn Nelson answers a question about astronauts that we’ve all had but didn’t have the guts to ask: Can their biological waste be used to make their food? Bryn talks with Penn State scientists who are doing early testing on using poop and pee...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 28, 2018 | ScienceWire
Georgia and Florida are fighting, Roberta Kwok writes in Hakai. They’re battling over water. A multiyear investigation—and court case—is digging into what caused the collapse of the Apalachicola Bay ecosystem and the fish and oyster industries that depended on...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
From the 1950s to last week, Nancy Steinberg reels out the story of Oregon State University’s oceanography program. Nearly everything known about the flora and fauna of Oregon’s coastal ocean comes from 60 years of samples taken along a specific route by...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
The book we’ve been waiting for from Kevin Bailey is here. In Fishing Lessons: Artisanal Fisheries and the Future of Our Oceans from University of Chicago Press, Kevin traces the history of fishing through stories of fishermen and women he has interviewed,...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
David Berger, visual artist, food writer, and science reporter, has a book about his real passion: Pacific razor clams. In Razor Clams, Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest, David explores the history, economic contributions, and cultural impact of the elusive...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
From Nepal, Joanne Silberner has been reporting on burns and burn care. Her latest story in Public Radio International focuses on bride burning—a particularly horrifying way to punish women. Joanne talks to a woman who is resolved to move away from the husband who...
