#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.
Hu and Rosen: Best American Science & Nature Writing
Works by two NSWA members — Jane C. Hu and Julia Rosen — are in the 2022 edition of “The Best American Science and Nature Writing” series, out this month from HarperCollins. The book features nonfiction writing published in an American publication in 2021. Hu’s...
Cole: ‘Naturalness’ in Physics
For Wired, K.C. Cole’s (@kccole314) essay, “The Unnatural Future of Physics,” explores the surprising connections between the Higgs boson, inclusivity in science and improvisational group rapping. Physicists still can’t explain why the Higgs is 100 million billion...
Rickey: Nanotech ‘Bubbles’ Detect Coronavirus
For the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Tom Rickey (@trickeyPNNL) writes about new research using nanotechnology to detect the coronavirus in air. The technology uses micelles — bubble-like molecular structures — whose surfaces are designed to react to...
Rosen and Tompa: NASW Nods
In the National Association of Science Writers’ 2022 Science in Society Awards competition, Julia Rosen (@1juliarosen) won in the Science Reporting category for her November 2021 story in High Country News on how heat waves change ecosystems. The judges wrote that...
Braun: Northern Spotted Owl
It’s now or never for saving the Northern Spotted Owl, Ashley Braun (@AshleyBraun) writes for Audubon Magazine. While no longer in the spotlight as they were during the “Timber Wars” of the late 20th century, the birds are in even graver danger now as the invasive...