The winner of the 2013 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, an annual prize for young science journalists, is Megan Scudellari. Scudellari received the award and its $1,000 prize for “Never Say Die,” a story about aging and life extension in MATTER, a Kickstarter-funded online magazine; for an article in The Scientist about prosthetic limbs, “Missing Touch;” and for two shorter pieces.
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Full program and schedule information for ScienceWriters2013 is now live at sciencewriters2013.org.
If you missed the NASW-sponsored Cross-Border Science Journalism Workshop April 27 in La Jolla, Ca., then take a look at these archived webcasts posted by Genevive Bjorn. Almost 30 U.S. and Mexican science journalists attended the one-day workshop to exchange ideas, discuss health and environmental issues, solve problems and start collaborations. See Bjorn's "Confronting the Barrier of the Border" on Storify for more.
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's Laura Van Dam Travel Fellowships. Estrella Burgos, Dan Keller, Phil McKenna, and Eric Niiler will each receive $2,500 in travel support to attend the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists, June 24-28 in Helsinki, Finland.
Congratulations to NASW members David Bjerklie and Lisa Winter, recipients of the 2013 Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings' fellowships to attend the 63rd Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.
Transcending traditional academic boundaries is key to continued progress at the intersection of nanotechnology, biotechnology and other scientific fields, but the organizational structure at many institutions hinders that kind of collaboration.
If you keep at a job for more than six decades, you get a lot of windows. At least that's how it's worked out for the San Francisco Chronicle's 94-year-old science reporter (and 53-year NASW member) David Perlman, judging from the photo with this Los Angeles Times profile: "He was born in 1918, a decade before the discovery of penicillin. Pluto had yet to be discovered, let alone demoted. The ballpoint pen was invented the year he got his first real newspaper gig."
The blue whale — owner of the world’s largest mouth — has some newly discovered prey-catching tricks. In a Jaws-like fashion, the whale ambushes huge patches of prey from below with a powerful 360-degree barrel roll.
Electronic implants to treat hearing loss, blindness and immobility are no longer limited to science fiction, scientists say. Researchers from the U.S. and Europe spoke February 17 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston to present new developments in this field of bionic medicine.