by Chris Tachibana | Dec 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
In a feature for The Atlantic, NSWA Board Member Ashley Braun writes about conservationists putting the Fear of Hawk into guileless birds. When representatives of endangered species are raised in captivity, they don’t understand predators. Ashley (@ashleybraun)...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Touch and grip, Jennifer Langston writes, is all about shear forces and small vibrations. University of Washington scientists and engineers are designing flexible, electronic skin that detects slipping over a surface or grasping an object, Jennifer writes in UW News....
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Roberta Kwok fulfills the dream of every science geek who grew up listening to Science Friday. She talks to Ira Flatow, long-time host of the public radio program, about freelance work for researchers. Their lively conversation is based on Roberta’s article in...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Bryn Nelson, writing for Science News for Students, visits three research groups doing very different projects on a common theme: proteins. Turns out paleontologists use them to make dinosaur family trees, nutritionists create recipes focused on them to keep kids...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 3, 2017 | ScienceWire
Steve Olson is author of Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens, which won the 2017 Washington State Book Award in the History/General Nonfiction category. And Steve’s not finished telling us stories about the volcano. In Scientific American, he reports...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 3, 2017 | ScienceWire
It’s “holotype.” Wendell Ricketts has the definition, several bonus words, and a dive into the holotype controversy in paleontology. What’s a field to do when its specimens are defined by body fragments in varying states of decay? It’s...
