Sophia Friesen
Science Reporting Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of ScienceSophia Friesen is a science writer and WUNC’s 2022 AAAS Mass Media Fellow. Before working with WUNC, 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.
