Sophia Friesen
Science Reporting Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of ScienceSophia Friesen is a science writer and ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s 2022 AAAS Mass Media Fellow. Before working with ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, they wrote for science news outlets including Massive Science, preLights, and the Berkeley Science Review, covering everything from wildfire mitigation to pterosaur flight abilities.
Sophia can be reached at sfriesen@wunc.org.
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A prototype "wave energy converter" will do a ten-day trial run in late August. If successful, the machine could help provide emergency drinking water for coastal communities cut off from other resources. -
Invasive crayfish species are spreading throughout North Carolina, which is bad news for freshwater ecosystems. -
Slowing stormwater down could be crucial as rapid urbanization affects water supplies. -
The parasites infect smallmouth bass and are only twice as long as a red blood cell. -
Argentine black and white tegus can regulate their body temperature. This could help them invade as far north as North Carolina. -
In some counties, over 10% of tests were over EPA limits for arsenic or lead. -
The broad-acting snakebite treatment is in clinical trials at Duke University and around the world. -
Sea level rise is predicted to cause salt marshes to migrate inland, leaving adjacent freshwater wetlands with nowhere to go. -
Even right whales that survive entanglements have fewer babies and worse health outcomes.
