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.
Our ailing planet’s temperature is climbing, and its seas are rising as well. New experimental treatments could help manage these symptoms of climate change. But if the leaders of Earth’s nearly eight billion residents cannot agree on a course of action, global conditions will only deteriorate.
Selected from a pool of almost 30 well-qualified applicants, Claudia Lopez-Lloreda, a neuroscience Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania and Calley Jones, a cancer biology Ph.D. student at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, make up the inaugural class of NASW Graduate Travel Fellows to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held Feb. 13-16.
Ten undergraduate and two graduate student science writers received NASW Travel Fellowships to attend the 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting.
A neuroscientist, a psychiatrist, and a theologian agree: Science and religion can work together to help improve mental health care. Studies have shown that religiosity is linked to positive mental health, though there has not always been an easy relationship between psychiatry and religion.
Mar. 19, 2019
An emerging multidisciplinary field called event attribution can link occurrences such as a specific hurricane or heat wave to climate change with relative confidence.
Mar. 14, 2019
Humans are accustomed to thinking of viruses as the enemy: lethal pathogens and the couriers of sniffles. But scientists are working to draw a more nuanced picture of the viral landscape, with broader implications.
Mar. 5, 2019
Human civilizations shape the environments upon which they are built. The rapid pace of change across the globe since the Industrial Revolution clearly demonstrates this trend, but recent research shows it's a common pattern stretching back millennia, affecting many sites across the planet.
Mar. 1, 2019
Fears of an eruption of the tallest mountain in the Korean Peninsula may have brought North Korea out of isolation and into the scientific global community.
Mar. 1, 2019
Equitable and inclusive environments, exposure to leading-edge science, career exploration opportunities, trained mentors and advisors, and communication skills training are key ingredients for a building a new, well-needed approach to graduate STEM education.
Mar. 1, 2019