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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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Esther Oyedele: Imagine rush ...
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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Patient advocates urge science journalists to present more diverse perspectives on Long COVID
“It’s time to turn the page on Long COVID,” said patient advocate and storyteller Chimére L. Sweeney, speaking to science writers in Aurora, Co...
Researcher encourages journalists to understand varied risks posed by uses of AI
Amid the growing enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI), journalists must go beyond superficial reporting and ask probing questions that challeng...
Long COVID, AI, UFOs and more: Reporters cover ScienceWriters2023
As experts spoke on topics ranging from environmental disaster response and quantum computers to long COVID, 14 intrepid reporters fanned out across t...
Combat medicine breakthroughs are reshaping civilian trauma care
On Oct. 17, 2005, during the Iraq War, a U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. With their vehicle disabled and e...
Insufficient abortion data fails to fully assess the post-Dobbs landscape
We may never know the full impact on reproductive health and pregnant people resulting from last year’s Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Wom...
