Since early July, the James Webb Space Telescope has provided Earthlings with stunning images of nebulae (star-forming regions), a galaxy cluster that appeared in the movie It’s A Wonderful Life […]
Author Archives: Meg Evans
Meg Evans has written science stories for the Evanston RoundTable since 2015, covering topics ranging from local crayfish, coyotes and cicadas to gravitational waves, medical cannabis, invasive garden plants, noctilucent clouds, the International Geophysical Year, and the endangered rusty patched bumble bee, to name just a few. She enjoys distilling the complexities of science into something she hopes will satisfy curious readers and spark further inquiry. Reach her at meg@evanstonroundtable.com.
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A tangled Webb: Some future telescope users urge NASA to change device’s name
While the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) quietly peers at infrared radiation in space to reveal more layers of cosmic history, a controversy about its namesake simmers a million miles […]
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Recycling Q&A with RoundTable readers
Evanston residents have questions about recycling, and the Evanston RoundTable is here to provide answers! In response to our recent recycling story, RoundTable readers submitted questions about local recycling. Feel […]
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Taming the beast: The Intricacies of Recycling in Evanston
This is the first in an ongoing series of RoundTable stories about recycling. News about the effects of climate change — higher global temperatures, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, more […]
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Neighborhood Menace or Natural Wonder? Coyote Debate Lives On
You can almost set your calendar by the perennial debate about coyotes in residential neighborhoods. Last May, several Nextdoor.com discussions bubbled over when a coyote openly camped out near a […]
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Community Science Project Hopes to Draw Endangered Bumble Bee to Evanston Gardens
When Americans think about bees they likely envision wax-filled hives humming with honeybees, which were brought to North America from Europe several hundred years ago. Honeybees thrived here until the […]
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Can a Cholesterol Drug Prevent Dementia? New Study Aims to Find Out.
by Meg Evans Smith Between five and six million Americans age 65 and older live with dementia, a form of memory loss most often caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Anyone facing […]
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Young Entrepreneurs Donate Germ-Killing Cell-Phone Cases to Healthcare Workers
Even as a coronavirus vaccine starts rolling out, many Americans still worry about becoming sick with SARS-CoV-2, the disease known as COVID-19. Scientists and public health professionals continue to recommend […]
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ETHS Alumni Create Self-Sanitizing Copper Cell-Phone Case
Two Evanston High School graduates, eager to help on the current pandemic frontline, have created a product that could help reduce transmission of the new coronavirus: a cell phone case […]
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Staying Busy at Home During the Covid-19 Health Crisis
Self-quarantine. Social distancing. Lockdown. Pandemic. These are words many of us never thought we would use in our lifetimes, but with the continued spread of the new (or “novel”) coronavirus, […]