by Susan Keown | Sep 30, 2024 | ScienceWire
In a piece for The Atlantic, Eric Scigliano stumbles on a natural experiment in his Seattle neighborhood: residential blocks built, unusually, with no streetlights. He compares the crime rates on these blocks and nearby lit blocks and investigates what cities around...
by Susan Keown | Sep 30, 2024 | ScienceWire
Writing for Yes! Magazine, Ashli Blow takes us to central Oregon, where the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians has reclaimed the management of thousands of acres of their ancestral lands, which for thousands of years people burned regularly, enriching the land,...
by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
New member David Ferris writes for Politico about how Georgians perceive electric vehicles, which are bringing manufacturing jobs to the state but have an image that’s heavily shaped by partisan political views. Once some of the most insatiable buyers of EVs in the...
by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Fred Hutch News Service, Bonnie Rochman marks the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the role of EGFR gene mutations in lung cancer treatment with the story of a woman who has survived metastatic lung cancer for two decades thanks to the therapies the discovery...
by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
Writing for the Society for Neuroscience’s Neuroscience Quarterly, Ellen Kuwana reports on what sleep does for us and how sex hormones play a role in sleep. New research in lab rodents details the role that estrogen plays on the neurons and gene networks involved in...
by Susan Keown | Aug 21, 2024 | ScienceWire
New research on the molecular mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease points toward potential avenues for treatment, writes Heidi Ledford for Nature. IBD is a catch-all term for a variety of intestinal diseases involving chronic inflammation, with pain, diarrhea, and...
