#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.
Hamers: Marine Invertebrate Propulsion
New member Laurel Hamers (@Arboreal_Laurel) writes for the University of Oregon about the jet propulsion used by a gelatinous sea creature, Nanomia bijuga. Hamers describes how this tiny, colonial creature with no central nervous system nevertheless uses many...
Yanny: Color Risk for Songbirds
Beautiful colors on tropical birds, while undoubtedly adaptive for the animals, also attract people who want to capture them for the international pet trade, writes Anna Marie Yanny (@annamarie_yanny) for Mongabay. This puts them at greater risk of extinction,...
Witze: Why Return to the Moon?
Been there, done that. So why send humans back to the Moon? asks Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) in an opinion piece for Nature. Politics and technology, not science, are (again) driving forces behind the latest Moon mission, Artemis I, which launched in November. But...
Donovan: Attention on Sarcopenia
Writing for neo.life, Robin Donovan (@RobinKD) explains that muscle loss, loss of strength and loss of function — sarcopenia — has a big impact on the quality of life and even lifespan of many people, but yet few have heard of it and there is little research on it....
Crowe: Invasive Crab
A story by new member Michael Crowe (@MichaelReports) for the Sierra Club gives us a look at the invasion of the European green crab into Washington waters, and what local officials are doing to keep “one of the worst invasive species in the world” contained. An...