Methadone is a life-saving medication. Users need it the same way people with diabetes require insulin. Learn more in Melody Glenn’s Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis. See www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

When beavers chop down trees near homes in Washington State, the Tulalip Tribes transfer them to tribal land. Beavers help restore trout and salmon populations, Alison Pearce Stevens tells young readers in When Beavers Move In. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Cover of the book Shell Seeker: The Life, Work, and Adventures of a Blind Biologist by Suzanne Sherman, showing a close-up view of a section of sandy beach with several types of mostly beige seashells and seaweed, adjoining a fringe of turquoise-colored ocean. The title, in shades of turquoise and teal blue, is in the upper half of the cover, superimposed on the beach scene, and the author’s and illustrator’s names are in dark green at the bottom of the cover.

Growing up blind, Geerat Vermeij learned to navigate the world via touch. K-5 readers can learn about his findings on mollusk and predator evolution in Suzanne Sherman’s Shell Seeker: The Life, Work, and Adventures of a Blind Biologist. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

In A Better World is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis, a graphic nonfiction book, Meera Subramanian & Danica Novgorodoff braid climate science & reports from 4 teen organizers of New York's 2019 youth climate protest. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

In Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research, Melanie Kaplan tells how she helped her rescue dog adjust to his new life & explores use of animals for research, drug & product testing, & teaching. ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

February 25, National Quiet Day, highlights the impact of noise on health. In Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World and How We Can Take It Back, Chris Berdik tells why we need better soundscapes & how to create them. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @cberdik.bsky.social ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

“More Than a Feeling,” the rock band Boston’s most enduring hit, marks its 50th anniversary in 2026. Learn how engineer Tom Scholz created Boston’s sound in Power Soak: Invention, Obsession, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Sound. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters #SciWriBooks

In Dennis Meredith's sci-fi novel, Angelians, an environmental journalist discovers his neurologist fiancée is an extraterrestrial being working to help humans protect Earth’s climate. A rogue group sees genocide as a better solution. www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Seeking your dream job? If hit by a layoff, what's next? Find advice in Create Your Unicorn Career: A Practical Guide to Designing the Authentic Career That Brings You Joy, Meaning, and Money – Even in Uncertain Times by Alaina G. Levine. www.nasw.org/member_artic... @ScienceWriters #SciWriBooks

In Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's, Charles Piller exposes false data in 100s of Alzheimer’s research papers. He won CASW’s 2025 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. See: www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Students need writing skills they can use over their entire careers, Bethann Garramon Merkle and Stephen Heard assert in Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach. Learn more: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @commnatural elsewhere ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Cancer and other work-related illnesses take 120,000 lives in the US annually, Jim Morris writes in The Cancer Factory, the National Association of Science Writers' 2025 Science in Society Book Award winner. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... @JimGMorris ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Even the best writers benefit from an editor’s input, Barbara Gastel asserts in Medical Editing: A Guide to Learning the Craft and Building Your Career. Scientists, science students, editors, and journalists need this book!
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From learning about her own Neanderthal DNA to dining on lampreys, Marie Zhuikov shares poetic reflections from her 27 years as a science writer for Wisconsin Sea Grant in High Fire Danger: Poems of Love & Nature. Backstory: www.nasw.org/member_artic... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks

Advance Copy: Backstories on books by NASW members 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 in a remote jungle four hours’ walk from the nearest dirt road. After WHO declared the COVID pandemic two days later, Peru shut down international and domestic travel. In _Another Bone-Swapping Event_, Fox shares experiences from his 14 months there.

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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

Doug Teschner, Beth Malow (NASW member), and Becky Robinson—Beyond the Politics of Contempt: Practical Steps to Build Positive Relationships in Divided Times “Even people with high levels of science literacy are prone to cognitive bias,” NASW member Beth Malow and others note in _Beyond the Politics of Contempt: Practical Steps to Build Positive Relationships in Divided Times._ The authors discuss barriers to critical thinking and ways to surmount them, topics reporters may find useful when addressing polarized issues, e.g. vaccine safety and autism.

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David Baron—The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America Our infatuation with Mars, David Baron writes, “began in a strange era, not that long ago, when it was the astronauts who were fiction and the Martians that were real.” In _The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America,_ Baron explores the consequences of astronomer Percival Lowell’s 1894 assertion that “canals” he saw on Mars suggested life existed there.

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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

Sarah Boon—Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist Many women in science face a glass obstacle course, if not a glass ceiling, Sarah Boon writes in _Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist._ “Students are taught to work harder, not smarter,” she notes. She details her struggles with depression as a PhD student and describes her work as a professor of glacier hydrology who also writes and gives talks on her field for the general public.

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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

Articles Rising global temperatures, pollution, overfishing, and other human-caused problems pose increasing threats to coral reef existence today, Lisa S. Gardiner asserts in _Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival._ Learning how coral reefs flourished or struggled in the past, she contends, can help us understand how they function now and find ways to help them continue to survive.

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