#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Peeples: Inner Clock
Lynne Peeples’ new book, “The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with our Circadian Rhythms” is now available for preorder from Riverhead Books. From the publisher: “Your body contains a symphony of tiny timepieces, synchronized to the sun and subtle signals in your...
Petersen: Debunking Antarctic Ice Claim
For USA Today’s Fact Check team, Kate S. Petersen debunks a viral Facebook post that misrepresented new research on Antarctic ice shelves. The study looked at a subset of ice shelves and found they are growing, but the post conflates the ice shelves with the overall...
Mesa: Struggling Western Wetlands
For High Country News, Natalia Mesa takes us on a tour of some of the West’s wetlands, whose ecological importance is belied by the fact that many are not only understudied — they are unmapped. She profiles new research on the Hoh Rainforest’s wetlands, which are...
Witze: Moon Training
For a feature in Nature, Alexandra Witze joined a NASA team on its biggest dress rehearsal for Artemis III, the next human mission to the moon. In the high desert of northern Arizona at night, astronauts practiced walking in spacesuits, conducting field geology, and...
Hu: Legalization Woes
In a feature for The Atlantic, Jane C. Hu looks at the decriminalization of marijuana to shine a light on what may become of the movement toward legalization of some psychedelics. Despite the massive strides it has made toward legal use, marijuana still is federally...