On March 9, 2020, Brad Fox flew from New York to Peru to spend 10 days with a traditional _curandero_, or healer, learning about plant medicines. COVID shutdowns kept him there for 14 months. Read Another Bone-Swapping Event, www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Cities offer superb birding ops, Ryan Goldberg reports in Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds. Goldberg examines the impact of air quality, bright lights, window strikes, & more on 100s of bird species that visit New York. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

In Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone, Ainissa Ramirez introduces readers aged 5-9 to inventor Jim West. It’s the 1st of her children’s picture books on Black innovators. www.nasw.org/member_artic... bsky.app/profile/aini... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Why do many species of bees have yellow & black bands? Why do we need to sleep? In Why Rats Laugh & Jellyfish Sleep and Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution, science writer David Stipp ponders these and other Darwinian puzzles. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Running for miles to locate invasive weeds, mussels, and insects is all in a day’s work for the dog sleuths Alison Pearce Stevens describes in Detective Dogs: How Working Dogs Sniff Out Invasive Species, for readers aged 8-12. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

I used to follow parcels of water around the ocean,” Deirdre Lockwood reports in her poem, “My Chemistry.” In her 1st book of poetry, An Introduction to Error, Lockwood, a scientist & science writer, offers meditations on research & life. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Dennis Meredith's latest scifi novel starts with a real event: the 1961 Soviet detonation in the Arctic of a superbomb. The Czar Bomb spins a story of an even bigger bomb that rogue state terrorists plan to detonate over Washington, DC. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

When the nation’s infatuation with Mars began, many people viewed astronauts as fiction and Martians as real, David Baron writes in The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Avoiding ultra-processed foods can aid weight loss and improve health, Claire Wilcox writes in Rewire Your Food-Addicted Brain: Fight Cravings and Break Free from a High-Sugar, Ultra-Processed Diet Using Neuroscience. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Women have greater endurance for long-distance sports, pain tolerance, and resistance to infections than men, Starre Vartan reports in The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @thecurioushuman @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Collecting water samples on a glacier, chasing away a grizzly, writing for the public? All in a day’s work, glacier hydrologist Sarah Boon reports in Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist. See www.nasw.org/member_artic... snowhydro.bsky.social/ ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Rising global temperatures, pollution, and more threaten coral reefs. In Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival, Lisa S. Gardiner looks to reef history for ways to help reefs live on. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @lisasgardiner.bsky.social @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Dragonflies are acrobats of the air. Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Rebecca E. Hirsch explores the functions of wings in insects, birds, seeds, and even airplanes for kids aged 4-8 in _Wonder Wings: Guess Who's Flying. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Real-world zombies live in virtually all habitats where terrestrial invertebrates dwell, Mindy Weisberger reports in Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind Control. Learn more: www.nasw.org/member_artic... Mindy Weisberger @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

How do we make everyday choices? Do our choices serve our big-picture goals? In What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change, Emily Falk explores the brain systems at work in making—and improving—our daily decisions. See: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @falklab @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Jennie Erin Smith spent 7 years in Colombia following a study of a large family with a high frequency of early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease to write Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

In Wild in Seattle: Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature, David B. Williams explores urban stalactites, seals and sea lions, a winter-active fungus known locally as “hair ice,” & more. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Mainstream science is not always objective, neutral, or singularly truthful, Ambika Kamath & Melina Packer write in Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ambikamath.bsky.social @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Prolonged space travel harms astronaut health, Dennis Meredith asserts in Earthbound: The Obstacles to Human Space Exploration & the Promise of Artificial Intelligence. His proposed alternative? AI robotic space probes. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

“The Covid-19 pandemic made the ocean of gases surrounding us visible.” Carl Zimmer writes in Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. It took months to recognize Covid-19’s airborne transmission. www.nasw.org/member_artic... Carl Zimmer @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Shut down your screens. Go outside at night. Tag along as Leigh Ann Henion attends a bat outing, a moth festival, and more in Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark. www.nasw.org/member_artic... Leigh Ann Henion @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

We really can die of a broken heart,” Mary-Frances O'Connor reports in The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing. She explains the science of grief reactions and tactics that aid recovery. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

A teenager leading a birding tour in a Minnesota peat-moss bog finds a mummified Viking boy in one of eight stories that slide from reality to science fiction in NASW member Marie Zhuikov’s book, The Path of Totality. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Questions aren’t just for scientists,” Jessica Fries-Gaither tells readers aged 3-5 in Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions. She helps children turn their observations into questions and seek answers. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters #SciWriBooks

Principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI) are as American as apple pie, NASW Member Carlos Hoyt and Minna Ham assert in Diversity Without Divisiveness: A Guide to DEI Practice for K-12 Educators. Learn more: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Do huge sharks, bigger than a school bus, still exist? Learn the facts in Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change: Answers to Your Ocean and Atmosphere Questions by NASW Member Ellen Prager & Dave Jones. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @elprager @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

NASW author Vince Beiser’s book Power Metal chronicles the author’s fascinating visits to people at myriad global mine sites,” Mark Mills notes in his Wall Street Journal review, www.wsj.com/arts-culture.... Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

In Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History, NASW author Olivia Campbell describes the scientists’ harrowing journeys to freedom and later success. See: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @oliviacampbell.bsky.social @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

NASW author Ferris Jabr’s book Becoming Earth is on the Tucson Festival of Books Best Books of 2024 list. Jabr is one of 8 NASW authors who will speak at the 2025 TFoB, Mar 15-16, 2025, at U of Arizona. See NASW’s Advance Copy blog www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Works by two NASW authors, Patchen Barss, and Rebecca Boyle, made the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 list, www.newyorker.com/best-books-2.... Backstories: www.nasw.org/member_artic..., www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

“Even though the world needs mining more than ever, the world needs mining to change,” Christopher Pollon writes in Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places, NASW’s 2024 Science in Society Book Award winner www.nasw.org/member_artic... chrispollon @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

“There’s nothing more complicated than parenthood,” Kavin Senapathy asserts in The Progressive Parent: Harnessing the Power of Science and Social Justice to Raise Awesome Kids. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @kavinsenapathy.bsky.social @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

In her novel, _Rebecca of Ivanhoe_, Alison Bass imagines the life of Rebecca, a 12th-century healer saved from being burned alive as a witch. Bass describes botanical and other medieval medical therapies. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @AlisonBBass @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Do you need a new cell phone? In _Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future,_ Vince Beiser explores the dangers that mining metals to manufacture cars, phones, computers & other everyday “necessities” pose. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Lina Zeldovich “has spun a thrilling tale” Amber Dance writes in UnDark about The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail. undark.org/2024/11/15/b... Backstory www.nasw.org/member_artic..., bsky.app/profile/lina... @ScienceWriters.org

Viruses that prey on bacteria, known as phages, may be our best defense against the next bacterial pandemic, NASW author Lina Zeldovich asserts in The Living Medicine. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @LinaZeldovich @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

In The Impossible Man, Patchen Barss tells “how science happens, where creative inspiration comes from, and who contributes and sacrifices to make works of genius possible.” www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-impossible-man-review-when-life-just-doesnt-add-up-05ba0ef5 @ScienceWriters.org

In The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius, Patchen Barss follows Penrose from childhood to Nobel Prize, capturing the intense mix of joy and sacrifice that allowed him to rewrite our understanding of the cosmos. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Essays on evaluating ideas before you pitch, writing a great lede, and self-editing are among 42 articles in The Craft of Science Writing: Selections from The Open Notebook, expanded ed., Siri Carpenter, ed. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @SiriCarpenter @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

“The Inner Clock offers a rich history of what makes us tick,” Brandy Schillace says in her WSJ review of Lynne Peeples’ book, wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-inner-clock-review-caught-in-the-diurnal-course-f0e2d1bb. Backstory www.nasw.org/member_artic... @lynnepeeps @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Two more NASW authors have profiles in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryn_Ne..., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca.... NASW’s Wikipedia Project aims to boost interest in solid science reporting. View NASW’s Advance Copy book column archives at www.nasw.org/article/adva....

Suppose terrorists create a food additive that makes foods irresistible. That’s the sci-fi scenario NASW author Dennis Meredith explores in Attack of the Food Zombies, a cautionary tale on food additive risks. Free eBook Oct 30-Nov 1. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

When a child sleeps poorly, parents may, too. In Beyond Tired: A Sleep Physician's Guide to Solving Your Child’s Sleep Problems for Good, Funke Afolabi-Brown draws on personal and professional experience to offer parents practical tips. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

As the climate warms, ice melts, and long-hidden artifacts emerge. Learn more in NASW author Lisa Baril's The Age of Melt: What Glaciers, Ice Mummies, and Ancient Artifacts Teach Us about Climate, Culture, and a Future Without Ice. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Solitude benefits mind and mood, Washington Post writer Jamie Friedlander Serrano reports, quoting NASW author Heather Hansen’s co-authors on Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Nearly 500 at-risk species live on US military bases, Sneed Collard III tells young readers in Defending Nature: How the US Military Protects Threatened and Endangered Species. He focuses on efforts to save 3 species. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @sneedcollard @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Biological clocks govern sleep, alertness, appetite, response to medications, & 100s of other bodily functions. Lynne Peeples tells why body time matters in The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms www.nasw.org/member_artic... @lynnepeeps ScienceWriters #SciWriBooks

Congrats to NASW author Rebecca Boyle. Her book, Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are, made the 2024 National Book Awards nonfiction longlist. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @rboyle31 @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Why do we still need vaccines? How do I sort out the good information about vaccines from the bad? in Vaccines and Your Family: Separating Fact from Fiction, 2nd Ed, Paul Offit, MD, and Charlotte Moser provide vaccine Q&As. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Today, Sept 6, is National Read a Book Day. Turn off your phone. Pick up a book. For great future reads, explore the archives of the National Association of Science Writers’ Advance Copy column, www.nasw.org/article/adva.... @ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks