by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Wudan Yan has a new entry in her series on palm oil. If you were reassured by Wudan’s article in Nature about mitigating the ecological impact of oil palms, you can start worrying again. Just read her piece for Stat about the health of women plantation workers....
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Sally James blogs about an all-star, all-NSWA-member production from Infinity Box Theatre Project. The second annual Centrifuge project featured five world-premiere plays guided and introduced by Wayt Gibbs @WaytGibbs, Greg Scheiderer @gscheiderer, Elle O’Brien,...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Scientists are tenacious but everyone has a limit. Graciela Matrajt profiles a researcher who was directing a successful graduate program but quit because she couldn’t work with her supervisor. Graciela explains the circumstances and the outcome, in the...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
In her first story for Nautilus, Samantha Larson explains the science of dread and fear and desire. Then she describes exactly what those emotions feel like when they are induced by a high-stakes rock climbing challenge. Experience it vicariously for yourself and...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
News about sarin gas is usually not good. But Ian Haydon has a rare positive story about chemical weapons in a piece for The Conversation that was picked up by Scientific American. Ian, a protein designer, writes about how scientists in his field are using enzyme...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
Follow Patricia Guthrie for all your Whidbey Island news. In the Everett Daily Herald, she tells about a three-person team that is taking action against opioid abuse. For the Whidbey News-Times she breaks news that any resident already intuitively knows: no county in...
