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Chemical disaster reveals need for good science in crisis responses Just before 9 p.m. on Feb. 3, a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. More than eight months later, amid a fog of misinformation and mistrust, residents ...

Amid unrest in the universe of UAPs, experts discuss NASA’s future role Identifying unidentified objects in our skies is a difficult task. Talking about research on them amid a lack of data, differing perspectives, and social media backlash exponential...

Trust and openness are vital for collaborating with Indigenous communities Indigenous communities have gathered centuries of knowledge on judiciously using and managing their land and its offerings. At a recent conference in Colorado, science writers lear...

Bad indoor air lasted weeks after Colorado fire After the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history burned more than a thousand structures, contaminated indoor air plagued surviving homes for several weeks. As the smell of s...

Climate scientist Michael Mann to present 11th Patrusky Lecture at ScienceWriters2023 University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael E. Mann has been selected by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) to present the eleventh Patrusky Lecture...

Maryn McKenna awarded 2023 Victor Cohn Prize Maryn McKenna (@marynmck), senior writer at WIRED and a widely published journalist and author specializing in public health, global health, and food policy, has been selected to r...

Four awarded grants to attend ScienceWriters2023 CASW is delighted to announce that four science writers will receive CASW New Horizons in Science travel fellowships to attend ScienceWriters2023 in Colorado October 6-10. The grou...

Sarah Kaplan wins 2023 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award Sarah Kaplan (@sarahkaplan48) at the Washington Post has won the 2023 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, CASW’s annual prize for young science journalists. Kaplan submitted four stori...

John D. Sutter wins Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting John D. Sutter (@jdsutter), an independent science and environmental journalist and filmmaker whose remarkable documentaries and investigative reporting have taken audiences to the...

CASW debuts Connector, a resource library for science journalism and communication Science journalists and science communicators have a new “one-stop shop” for finding online resources. The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is proud to announce t...

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