Erin Wayman

Aug 23, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Erin Wayman |Meghan Rosen |Tina Saey |Alex Fox

Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet's changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Oncologist Steven Rosenberg of the U.S. National Cancer Institute became intrigued by the body’s potential for fighting cancer in 1968 after encountering a patient whose tumors spontaneously disappeared, presumably due to the immune system. It took decades to go from that kernel of an idea to the new TIL therapy.

Feb 26, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Evelyn Lamb |Skyler Ware |Erin Wayman |Laura Sanders

Consider this sequence of numbers: 5, 7, 9. Can you spot the pattern? Here’s another with the same pattern: 15, 19, 23. One more: 232, 235, 238.  “Three equally spaced things,” says Raghu Meka, a computer scientist at UCLA. “That’s probably the simplest pattern you can imagine.”  Yet for almost a century, mathematicians in the field of combinatorics have been puzzling out how to know whether an endless list of numbers contains such a sequence, called an arithmetic progression.

Feb 16, 2024 | snexplores.org | Madeline Reinsel |Emily Conover |Betsy Mason |Erin Wayman

arachnid: A group of invertebrate animals that includes spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks. Many have silk or venom glands. biologist: A scientist involved in the study of living things. chemical: A substance formed from two or more atoms that unite (bond) in a fixed proportion and structure. For example, water is a chemical made when two hydrogen atoms bond to one oxygen atom. Its chemical formula is H2O.

Dec 20, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Erin Wayman

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Dec 19, 2023 | sciencenews.org | Erin Wayman

To the moon, asteroids and beyond, robotic explorers racked up the mileage in 2023. Here’s the latest status of space missions that made headlines this year. Update: There’s not much progress to report yet; it will take about eight years for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or Juice, to reach its destination. But once there, the spacecraft will fly by the Jovian moons Callisto, Europe and Ganymede numerous times before settling into orbit around Ganymede.