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The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is committed to improving the quality of science news reaching the public. Comprised of a panel of distinguished journalists and scientists, CASW develops and funds programs to help reporters and writers produce accurate and informative stories about developments in science, technology, medicine and the environment.

CASW P.O. Box 910
Hedgesville, WV 25427
304-754-6786

In Focus

50th New Horizons slated for the Research Triangle

Midway between the Outer Banks and the Blue Ridge lies North Carolina's research nexus, the site of the 50th New Horizons in Science briefings Oct. 28 and 29. Science writers will converge on the Research Triangle Oct. 26-20 for ScienceWriters2012 [1], which will incorporate two days of tours (including a trip to the coast!), the National Association of Science more…

CASW Periscope

BBC, specialty outlets: A Milky Way doppelganger. Also – how about that faraway one schmeared by a cosmic lens?

The Hubble Space Telescope’s userers at the European Space Agency, which is a junior partner to NASA on the telescopes management, released today a stunning image of a galaxy called NGC 1073. If Milky Way specialists are right, it looks a lot like the one in which the Sun and its planets circulate. The distant galaxy more…
Knight Science Journalism Tracker
Emotion runs high at H5N1 debate

Last night, researchers and public health officials gathered high above New York City’s ‘Ground Zero’ in hopes of narrowing the divide within the scientific community over the fate of two papers currently in the press at /Nature/ and /Science/ demonstrating mammalian transmission of avian influenza H5N1 [1]. Dozens of commentaries and news stories have born out more…
The Great Beyond (Nature Magazine News Blog)
US astronomers endorse NASA work on European dark energy mission

NASA has the blessing of a committee of US astronomers to become a small-percentage partner in Euclid, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study dark energy. The National Academies issued a short report [1] today endorsing a deal where $20 million from NASA would buy access to Euclid data for US astronomers. NASA has been trying to find more…
The Great Beyond (Nature Magazine News Blog)
Embargo Watch: How Gina Kolata got her scoop, and the journal that tried to have it both ways…

Here at ksjtrcker a roundup earlier this week of news on a report in PLoS ONE about how Alzheimer’s disease – or the version in lab mice to be more exact – spreads in the brain noted with curiosity that the NYTimes’s Gina Kolata was the only reporter who had wind of a second paper on the more…
Knight Science Journalism Tracker
Far Side of the Moon Filmed by NASA Spacecraft

One whole face of the Moon can never be seen from Earth because it constantly faces away from our planet. But now one of the twin GRAIL spacecraft launched by NASA last September has returned its first video of the Moon's hidden side after being pulled into orbit at New Year... from the/ Telegraph/ (UK) more…
Science in The News Daily
Alzheimer's Disease Jumps Across Brain Cells to Spread Like Infection

Alzheimer's disease spreads through the brain like an infection, jumping from one cell to another, according to a new study... from /CBS News/ more…
Science in The News Daily

Council for the Advancement of Science Writing

Flagstaff remembered: Great hosts and posts

Science writers afloat in Glen Canyon