#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.
Johnson-Groh: Dark-Matter Detector
Despite its ubiquity, dark matter has eluded all attempts to detect it directly. Mara Johnson-Groh writes in Symmetry Magazine about a new “paleodetector” proposal to analyze ancient rock samples for traces of dark matter. She explains how even a tiny sample of a...
Stiffler: Disrupting Drug Development
For Geekwire’s Health Tech podcast, Lisa Stiffler (@lisa_stiffler) talks to Sanath Kumar Ramesh, whose son Raghav was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder. As a software engineer, Ramesh is oriented toward problem-solving. So when Raghav’s doctors told the family...
Peeples: Lifting Mask Mandates
Writing for Nature, Lynne Peeples (@LynnePeeps) asks whether it’s too soon to lift mask mandates. She reviews scientific studies on mask effectiveness conducted around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines the roles that community norms, enforcement and...
Doughton: Becoming a Midwife
Sandi Doughton (@SandiDoughton) takes readers behind the scenes of midwifery in her new book, “Becoming a Midwife,” as she shadows veteran midwife Mary Lou Kopas of UW Medicine. Doughton shows us Kopas’ path into her career and how she helps her patients have healthy...
Silberner: COVID-19 Research and Waste
For NPR’s Goats and Soda, Joanne Silberner (@jsilberner) interviews scientists who argue that COVID-19 inspired a crush of scientifically wasteful clinical trials as the world sprang into action to find solutions to the pandemic. There’s a better, though more...