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Science students report on RNA, quantum information and more at ScienceWriters2025
At ScienceWriters2025, eight science graduate students jumped into journalism to cover the 63rd annual New Horizons in Science briefings and the 13th ...
Pandemic prevention starts now: Three tools to fight the next health threat
This year, almost two thousand measles cases dotted America. Cholera, dengue and other infectious diseases continued to spread across the world. As th...
“A fundamentally new technology”: David Awschalom on quantum information science
Technology has reshaped society in ways once presumed unimaginable — the first ARPANET message transmitted in 1969, for example, laid the founda...
Uncovering the tangled story behind AI’s water use
One news source states artificial intelligence, or AI, may use up much of the water around Illinois and deplete drinking water sources. At the same ti...
Iran, new Russian weapons, Golden Dome: Expert briefs writers on nuclear threats
Other crises may have pushed nuclear weapons out of the spotlight in recent years, but MIT physicist and nuclear security expert Lisbeth Gronlund told...
Jack Szostak on the origin of life
When Nobel laureate Jack Szostak asked the crowd at the ScienceWriters2025 conference in Chicago whether life is widespread in the universe, hands wen...
Will cuts in science funding and immigration crackdowns spur a U.S. brain drain?
Amid significant cuts to U.S. research funding, attacks on higher education, and increased scrutiny of immigrants, many supporters of science are conc...
Can NASA pursue breakthrough science during a political upheaval?
NASA’s missions have taken humans to the moon, put rovers on Mars, and revealed the wonders of distant stars and galaxies. But the Trump administrat...
Post-election breakdown: An interview with Sunshine Hillygus
The 2024 United States presidential election had the American people on the edge of their seats—and science writers from across the country were rea...
Are Autonomous Vehicles the Answer to Safer, Smoother Traffic?
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[Cars honking, traffic sounds]
Esther Oyedele: Imagine rush h...
For Joseph L. Graves Jr., a lifetime of fighting social injustice
As a scientist, Joseph L. Graves Jr. studies the evolution of aging and of microbes. And as an African-American man in academic science, he has worked...
Combating the health impacts of extreme heat
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, it’s easy to see why natural disasters take center stage in policies addressing climate-related health risks. ...
CASW fellows cover ScienceWriters2024: Read their stories
Among the audiences at the November ScienceWriters2024 meeting in Raleigh, N.C., were 17 CASW-supported reporters diligently taking notes and conducti...
Exercise may manage blood pressure through the gut microbiome
A North Carolina A&T scientist is promoting exercise in marginalized communities to target cardiometabolic disease through the gut. Marc Cook, a g...
A translator for the universe
Hitoshi Murayama is a physicist who thinks big. Really big.
“This is a redshift cosmic microwave background radiation picture of the Big Bang 13.8 ...
Science journalism’s role in a polarized post-election America
Just days after the 2024 presidential election, Sunshine Hillygus, a political scientist at Duke University, addressed hundreds of science writers gat...
Experts share tips for covering clean technologies
In an effort to combat climate change, governments have since 2020 drastically increased investments in clean technologies, or “cleantech,” a suit...
Hitoshi Murayama lights path forward for dark matter research
From the solar systems in the Milky Way to the international collaborations down on Earth, Hitoshi Murayama believes that dark matter—and the quest ...
CASW executive director Rosalind Reid to retire
Following more than a decade of exemplary service as executive director of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW), Rosalind Reid ha...
CASW launches 2023 giving season challenge
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