#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.
Cole: Math and Mass Cancellation
As a child in math class, KC Cole (@kccole314) found satisfaction in canceling, the process of reducing fractions to the smallest denominator. In her recent first-person essay for Wired, Cole reflects on the connection between basic arithmetic concepts and humans’...
Hickey: Icy Patterns
Strange patterns can arise in the pebbly ground of cold landscapes. Now, writes Hannah Hickey (@hickeyh), scientists can explain how these patterns of circles, lines or gently undulating shapes form. The rocks are slowly pushed into place by the random growth of...
Swane: Pizza, the Modernist Way
Love pizza? Really love pizza? Then you’re in luck. NSWA member Stephanie Swane is the publisher for Modernist Cuisine (@ModCuisine), which just put out its latest, “Modernist Pizza.” The multi-volume work covers the history and science of this delightful dish, the...
McCoy: Axolotl Conservation
For NPR’s Short Wave podcast, Berly McCoy (@travlinscientst) and colleagues bring us the axolotl, a friendly-looking aquatic animal that has held a place of cultural importance for two thousand years in the area now known as Mexico City. These salamanders have several...
Bernhardt: Fungus Fights Invasive Plants
Carolyn Bernhardt (@CarolBernie11) writes for the University of Minnesota about a project to investigate whether rust fungi can successfully manage two major invasive plant species that came to the state from Europe: glossy buckthorn and reed canarygrass. While some...