by Chris Tachibana | Nov 3, 2015 | ScienceWire
Jerry Joyce, Moon Joyce Resources, is an editor on “2015 State of the Sound: Report on the Puget Sound Vital Signs.” Supported by the Puget Sound Partnership and the Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program, this report, which includes a lovely...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 3, 2015 | ScienceWire
Preschoolers practice transitive inference, Jane Hu @jane_c_hu discovered. In research done at UC Berkeley, now published in Cognitive Development, Jane and colleagues used puppets to observe kids making sophisticated conclusions about preferences by watching others....
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
Heroin, writes Michele Solis, didn’t disappear in the 90s with the Spice Girls. Heroin addiction is still very much with us, along with prescription opioid abuse. In “Heroin Abuse: Breaking the Cycle” in the Pharmaceutical Journal, Michele tells what...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
Ask Andrea Watts: What’s the solution to invasive plants? Maybe it’s herbicides, she’s writes in the US Forest Service publication Science Findings. Andrea talks with two experts about their careful efforts to optimize chemical control of invaders...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
David Mills and Infinity Box Theatre Project asked four teams of a playwright plus a geneticist or synthetic biologist, “What does it mean to be human?” Hear answers in the form of readings of four new one-act plays from the teams, at the Ethnic Cultural...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
UW scientists, writes Deborah Bach @DeborahBach1, have noninvasively linked the brains of two people sitting a mile apart. So far, the brain-to-brain interface caps have been used only to play “20 Questions,” but Deborah, a University of Washington public...
