Kate Wong
@katewong
Senior editor at Scientific American. I write about human origins, animals past and present, wildlife conservation. Views are my own.
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05-12-2008 19:51:14
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I've been working on this story for over a year, and it's without a doubt the most personal story I've ever written: Surgeons Aim to Transplant Organs from Pigs to Humans to Help Solve the Donor Shortage Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/surgeo…
🚨🧵The indomitable Dr. Charles Roseman & I have a commentary out in @SciAm. In it we discuss the ever-controversial topic of #sex & #gender. We present a question first framework, as the questions should drive the ways in which we operationalize sex. 1/4
🚨🧵Growing up, my family made regular trips to Borders Books (yes, that still existed in my childhood). The first thing I did upon entering the story was run to the magazine section and check out the latest issue of @SciAm. Notre Dame Research Notre Dame Anthropology University of Notre Dame Univ. of Delaware 1/6
Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why scientificamerican.com/article/cats-a… by Kate Wong via Scientific American cc Bunsen, BEAKER, and Bernoulli Prof. Anjali Goswami: "cats—from tabbies to tigers—are quintessential products of evolution." #TeamCats! #Meow!
Our new paper on toothed #whale jaws is out today in Current Biology. The jaw of toothed whales is unique in that it is used for both #hearing & #feeding. We investigate what’s happened to the shape of the #jaw over 50 million years🐬 cell.com/current-biolog…
Extreme weather and climate events have long-term consequences for health, by Asher Rosinger for Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/extrem…
🚨🚨Excited to share my new Scientific American article! Extreme climatic events affect #waterinsecurity & #foodinsecurity which ⬆️ stress. This changes our biology & damages health in more ways & on longer timescales than we realized. Fun working w/ Kate Wong on this! scientificamerican.com/article/extrem…
Scientific American: "Here’s What I Learned as the U.S. Government’s UFO Hunter" scientificamerican.com/article/heres-… A forthcoming investigational report from an office of the Pentagon has found no evidence of aliens, only allegations circulated repeatedly by UFO claim advocates" #UFOs
It's the year 2024 and West Virginia just signed a law that allows the teaching of religious alternatives to science (meaning creationism) in public schools. scientificamerican.com/article/new-la… by Dr. Amanda L. (Glaze) Townley of National Center for Science Education on Scientific American
Happy Earth Day! In another 15 days my next book, The Birds That Audubon Missed, will be published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster on May 7. I'm grateful to the renowned artist/ornithologist David Sibley for his generous and insightful comments about the book.
It’s National Go Birding Day! Tools like eBird & Merlin Bird ID make finding and identifying birds easier than ever. There’s never been a better time to be a birder. Here’s my story on falling in love with birds in the golden age of birding for Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/we-are…
CMB-S4, a high-priority U.S. science project, is meant to unveil the 1st moments of cosmic history by studying the Big Bang's afterglow. Except now the U.S. govt says it can't support CMB-S4's construction at the South Pole. By Meghan Bartels, for Scientific American. scientificamerican.com/article/cosmic…
You know how the Doctor on Doctor Who has 2 hearts? A superfan got curious about the anatomy, physiology & evolution of the Time Lord cardiovascular system, so she figured it out. The resulting speculative biology is a joy. By Amelia Marvit for Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/doctor…