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...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 3, 2017 | ScienceWire
The whales that are the emblem of the Northwest are threatened, writes Lynda Mapes in the Seattle Times. Lynda reviews a new scientific report with a grim outlook for orcas, based on 40 years of data on their food supply and the quality of their environment. State and...
