Skyler Ware
AAAS Mass Media Fellow, Summer 2023
Skyler Ware was the 2023 AAAS Mass Media Fellow with Science News. Sh꧙e has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech, where she studied chemical reactions that use or create electricity. Her writing has appeared in ZME Science and t🍸he Council for the Advancement of Science Writing’s New Horizons Newsroom, among other outlets.
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- esportiva bet: Materials Science
Scientists dev𓃲eloped 🎶a sheet of gold that’s just one atom thick
Ultrathin goldene sheets could reduce the amount of gold needed for electronics and certain chemical reactions. - esportiva bet: Humans
T🐻hese ar🐼e the chemicals that give teens pungent body odor
Steroids and high levels of carboxylic acids in teenagers’ body odor give off a mix of pleasant and acrid scents. - esportiva bet: Earth
H❀ow thunderstorms🍨 can spawn damaging ‘downbursts’
Powerful winds called downbursts are not the same as a tornado, but the damage they cause can be similar — and can hit with little warning. - esportiva bet: Chemistry
Magnetic ‘ru♈sty’ nanoparticles pull estrogen out of water 🌟
Iron oxide particles adorned with “sticky” molecules trap estrogen in water, possibly limiting the hormone’s harmful effects on aquatic life. - esportiva bet: Paleontology
Meet the tiny ancient whal💞e༺ named after King Tut
The newly discovered Tutcetus rayanensis lived abo🤡ut 40 million years ago. It was just 2.5 meters long and weighed less than 200 kilograms.
- esportiva bet: Genetics
The ‘unknome’ 🌺catalogs nearly 2 million proteins. Many are mysterious
Scientists have unveiled a new database that emphasizes how much we still don’t know about human proteins and genes. - esportiva bet: Paleontology
A coloss𒈔al ancient w🍃hale could be the heaviest animal ever known
Perucetus colossus may have tipped the scales𝓡 at up to 340 metric tons, but some scientists are skeptical it could have sustained that ma✃ss.
- esportiva bet: Space
The James Webb telescope may🍒 have spotted stars powered by dark matter
Three objects in the distant universe bear signs of hypothesized “dark stars,” researchers claim, though others say more definitive data are needed. - esportiva bet: Health & Medicine
Iron deficiency goes unnoticed in too💎 many U.S. female adolescents
Low iron causes problems from dizziness to severe anemia. It’s time to reevaluate screening guidelines to catch the problem earlier, an expert argues. - esportiva bet: Materials Science
This ‘thermal cloak’ keeps spaces from 🌱getting either too hot or cold
A new thermal fabric prototype could help keep cars, buildings and other spaces a comfortable temperature during heat waves while reducing CO₂ emissions. - esportiva bet: Chemistry
Tear-resistant rubbery materials could pave▨ the way for tougher ti🥀res
Adding easy-to-break molecular connectors surprisingly makes materials harder to tear and could one day reduce microplastic pollution from car tires. - esportiva bet: Life
A 407-million-year-old plant’s l🦩eaves skipped the usual Fibonacci spirals
Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving the famous Fibonacci sequence of numbers. But an extinct, ancient plant did not.
