Coverage begins in 2006 for the ScienceWriters meeting and 2009 for the AAAS meeting. To see programs for past ScienceWriters meetings, go to the ScienceWriters meeting site.
It’s official. Less than a month into the new year, a year quietly anticipated to be full of plentiful vaccines and bustling restaurants, 2021 was dubbed “the year of COVID-19 variants” by major science publications and public health specialists.
In his dermatology clinic at UT Austin, Dr. Adewole Adamson had a disagreement with a colleague. To his trained eye, a patient’s mole had looked strange, showing early warning signs of melanoma, aggressive skin cancer. But his colleague saw it as a low risk.
There is more to the oral microbiome than meets the mouth. Established within a few minutes of birth, this diverse community of bacteria lives on every surface of our mouth throughout our lives. For decades, scientists have researched these bacteria and their role in dental diseases, especially caries and periodontitis.
At a time when black and brown Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much greater rates than whites, it is more important than ever for scientists to gain the trust of minority communities by doing a better job of listening to their concerns and involving them in scientific research, researchers at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting on February 10 said.
Nearly one in 50 children in the United States experience autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which may hurt their abilities to function socially. Scientists are now experimenting with an unusual treatment for these children—altering the makeup of bacteria in the gut with hopes of improving both digestive health and brain function.
The biggest source of waste in the US seafood supply chain isn’t bycatch or discarded innards—it’s seafood being thrown away at restaurants or home kitchens. A new survey from Johns Hopkins University suggests that when it comes to seafood, Americans are confused about what to buy and when to pitch.
To enter a cell, all viruses need clever ways of ringing its molecular doorbell.
The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) is sponsoring virtual student programming to coincide with the AAAS 2021 annual meeting.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small team sought to track the virus’ spread across the United States by documenting testing rates. Since April, The COVID Tracking Project has grown to hundreds of volunteers that compile state-level COVID-19 data trends each day.