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Mar. 8, 2022NASW news
Sign language spotlights the brain’s ability to adapt
The human brain is wired to communicate. Three projects have exposed new details about the impacts of signing on the brain.
Mar. 4, 2022
Student coverage of the AAAS 2022 Annual Meeting
NASW's Education Committee paired students with professional science writers for a mentorship program held in conjunction with the virtual AAAS 2022 Annual Meeting.
Mar. 3, 2022Psychedelic therapies such as psilocybin and MDMA may one day help people recover from severe depression, trauma, and substance abuse, but scientists are struggling to access them for studies due to strict regulations.
Mar. 3, 2022
Energy grid resilience: Making decisions under uncertainty
Severe winter storms slammed into Texas a year ago, causing the worst energy infrastructure failure in state history. During a Feb. 20 virtual panel at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, three experts weighed in on what grid resilience means, how we improve resiliency, and how we enact these changes in an equitable way.
Mar. 2, 2022
Cyborg jellyfish: The future of deep ocean exploration?
The dark depths of our ocean remain largely unexplored, making it one of the most mysterious and poorly understood regions on Earth. An aeronautical engineer at the California Institute of Technology thinks he’s discovered the perfect way to take the plunge – cyborg jellyfish.
Mar. 2, 2022
Study finds vaccine-like method may protect people from misinformation
Amid widespread promotion of vaccination against COVID-19, researchers have found a way to draw on the science of inoculation to combat misinformation.
Some scientists say they need to create better ways than p-values to explain their methodologies.
Anthropologists push for policy changes to undo the erasure of the “invisible” dead
A movement is growing to atone for the erasures of mass human deaths during massacres, wars and other events whose true toll is only now being unearthed by forensic and anthropological studies of burial sites.