by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Mount St. Helens is still telling stories. And Steve Olson collects them in his new book Eruption, which puts the science and history of the mountain in the context of personal reports from people who were nearby when it blew in May 1980. On Monday, March 7, Steve...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Tamara Sellman has good news for people with obstructive sleep apnea: oral appliance therapy (OAT). Tamara explains that OAT could replace continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices, which many people dislike, even though they can help with a healthy night’s...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Yes, they’re adorable. But Beth Geiger has a story for Nature Conservancy magazine about a sobering topic: threats to Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits, which are North America’s smallest bunnies. The little guys are back from the brink of extinction but the rescue has...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Hillary Lauren, Science Slug, reports from a tour to the NASA Space Center in Houston. Check out Hillary’s photos of massive rockets, old-school computer consoles, and that blue Texas sky. Visit again later when Hillary promises to tell us about moon rocks and women...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
In The Atlantic, NSWA Vice President Jane C. Hu writes about a burgeoning populist uprising. Or at least, a group of scientists who are pushing academic publisher Elsevier to lower fees for open access—making journal articles freely available online. Many researchers...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2016 | ScienceWire
Priscilla Long is tracing the line from LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, to Lucas, her five-year-old grandnephew. In “How Chemistry Became Biology” for American Scholar (subscription required), Priscilla @PriscillaLong explores the genetic connectedness of...
