Stephenie Livingston
Writer and Journalist at Freelance
Words on science, nature and rural places.
Articles
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Sep 5, 2024 |
phys.org | Stephenie Livingston
Imagine a sensor so sensitive it can detect early cancer in a single drop of blood, enabling diagnosis and treatment before the first symptoms—possibly before a tumor even forms.
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Jun 26, 2024 |
nwf.org | Stephenie Livingston
What an 'Elephant Graveyard' Teaches Us About Climate Change A prehistoric Florida fossil site provides an unprecedented look at gomphotheres—elephant relatives that lived in a warming climate—and offers insights for today By Stephenie Livingston Conservation Jun 27, 2024 Gomphotheres—a group of animals including the Rhynchotherium (illustrated above, by Pedro Toledo/CC BY)—existed for 20 million years, but only three of their cousins made it to the 21st century.
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Dec 8, 2023 |
issnationallab.org | Stephenie Livingston
As Choctaw families traveled the Trail of Tears, a deadly route Native Americans endured when they were forcibly moved from their ancestral lands, they held onto more than survival—they safeguarded their culture by sewing tiny seeds in their garments.
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Sep 29, 2023 |
issnationallab.org | Stephenie Livingston
Plants don’t have bones or muscles or brains, but they’re always on the move. Driven by their genetics, some are hardwired to flower in a freeze. Others figuratively hold their breath to survive floods. Still, many of us know others die if you look at them funny. Like Charles Darwin, botanist Simon Gilroy is obsessed with the mysterious behaviors of plants.
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Sep 21, 2023 |
issnationallab.org | Stephenie Livingston
You’ve heard of reaching for the Moon, but the White House’s Cancer Moonshot initiative aims to do more. The recently reignited initiative has set forth an ambitious goal: to reduce the cancer death rate by at least half by 2047—which would prevent more than 4 million deaths—and improve the lives of people diagnosed with cancer.
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