by Chris Tachibana | Oct 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Pallid bats scarf down scorpions like peanuts, writes Christie Wilcox in her Science Sushi blog for Discover. Don’t they notice the stinger? Christie (@NerdyChristie) extracts the answer from a PLOS One paper and the results could teach us about how to manage...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Wayt Gibbs asks a pertinent question, in light of post-Harvey gas shortages and climate change conversations: “How Much Energy Will the World Need?” Wayt does the calculations for Anthropocene. He also talks to Michael E. Brown (“the guy who killed...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
By day, Corydon Ireland is a science writer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. A former reporter, freelancer, and staff writer for Harvard University news, Cory also writes fiction. He generously shares one of his short stories, “Seeing Red,” which...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
In recent weeks, we’ve seen corporate leaders make public statements against racism, white supremacy, and the rise of neo-Nazis. But Linda Dahlstrom has a particularly moving and personal description of how last month, Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Shultz...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
For the engineering magazine ElectroOptics, Rachel Berkowitz covers the history, current status, and upcoming advances of laser eye surgery. It’s more than just LASIK, Rachel explains. Vision can also be corrected with SMILE, or a method that relies on the same...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
From Frederick “Fritz” Freudenberger, media relations intern at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, comes news of a clinical trial to make umbilical cord blood treatments for leukemia a little easier. The study, Fritz writes, could improve outcomes...
