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Roberta Kwok Tracks an Asteroid as It Hurtles toward Earth
Roberta Kwok In an award-winning story, Roberta Kwok recounted the story of an asteroid from the time it was spotted until the meteorites hit Earth. This event represents the first time that...
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David Grimm Covers Nuclear Fallout, Horse Brains, Mummified Remains, and...
David Grimm Science’s Online News Editor David Grimm profiles research using radioactive isotopes from atomic bomb fallout to pursue an astounding variety of scientific questions. His story for...
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Tina Saey Couldn’t Sleep, and She Wanted to Know Why
Tina Saey For a special issue of Science News, staff writer Tina Saey explored research on why we sleep—and what happens when we can’t. Here, Saey, who wrote the package along with staff writers Laura...
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Brendan Borrell Jets to Bolivia for a Hot Story on Chili Peppers
Brendan Borrell For his first major feature, freelancer Brendan Borrell crisscrossed Bolivia for 2 ½ weeks in an old truck with notebook, recorder, and camera, waiting out roadblocks, going a long time...
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Carl Zimmer Ponders Unseen Ecosystems Teeming Within Us
Carl Zimmer If ever you feel alone in the universe, perhaps you can take comfort in the knowledge that in fact, you are never without the company of the thousands of microbial species residing in your...
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Robin Marantz Henig Explores the Biology of Anxiety
Robin Marantz Henig New York Times Magazine contributing writer Robin Marantz Henig traveled to Harvard and the University of Maryland for a story on the biology of anxiety. Alongside top developmental...
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David Dobbs Deconstructs “My Mother’s Lover”
Courtesy of David DobbsDavid Dobbs When journalist David Dobbs’ mother was dying, she shocked her children by asking that her ashes be spread in the waters off the coast of Hawaii, so that she could be...
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Meredith Wadman Probes the Aftermath of a Shooting
Meredith Wadman On Friday, February 12, 2010, biologist Amy Bishop stood up in a conference room at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and shot six of her colleagues; three died. Nature...
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Maryn McKenna Describes Life as “Scary-Disease Girl”
Courtesy of Maryn McKennaMaryn McKenna For nearly all her career, journalist and author Maryn McKenna has written about public health, from Midwest droughts to bird flu to Gulf War Syndrome. While...
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Erik Vance Scrutinizes a Battle over Dolphin Rights
Erik Vance Reporting from the trenches in the war over dolphin rights, freelance science writer Erik Vance relates the story of Lori Marino and Diana Reiss, dolphin researchers who have spent most of...
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Weaves a Tale of Scientific Rivalry and Nobel Celebration
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee The three cosmologists who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the 1998 discovery of the accelerating universe were only a few of the dozens of scientists, working on two...
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Maryn McKenna Reports the Dark Side of Agriculture
Maryn McKenna Science journalist Maryn McKenna has covered the infectious diseases beat for more than a decade. During that time, she’s written countless articles and two award-winning books on the...
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Serendipity Stories: A New TON Series
A couple of months ago, science writer Jim Kling offered to share a story with TON readers about his unconventional path to a Science Careers story about a biologist who had learned to use her border...
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Virginia Hughes Enters the Land of the Sleepyheads
Brian FriedmanVirginia Hughes People with a rare sleep disorder called idiopathic hypersomnia can sleep for days at a time and still wake to sluggish brains and bodies. In fact, hypersomniacs often...
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Lauren Morello Examines Twitter and Sexism in Science
Chris MaddaloniLauren Morello When biologist and Nobel laureate Tim Hunt made spectacularly sexist remarks in a public forum, Twitter was there. When a scientist for the European Space Agency’s Rosetta...
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Read This! (Or Not): Writing Book Reviews
Jessica Ruscello/Unsplash (CC0) Cassandra Willyard’s first opportunity to write a book review came under challenging circumstances. An editor at Vice invited her to review Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The...
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Maggie-Koerth Baker Untangles the Story behind Trump’s False Claims of...
Courtesy of Maggie Koerth-BakerMaggie Koerth-Baker On the campaign trail leading up to last year’s presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump kept up a refrain that proved popular with his...
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Linda Nordling Probes the Transformation of South African Science
Courtesy of Linda NordlingLinda Nordling While reporting for Nature about the decolonization of science in post-Apartheid South Africa, science journalist Linda Nordling found herself in an...
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Roxanne Khamsi Explores a Potential Revolution in Cancer Treatment
One typically thinks of Darwin’s theory of evolution playing out in natural habitats. Over time, random mutations that make a species more fit for its niche lead to the giraffe’s neck, the spider’s...
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Sarah Zhang Probes the Dwindling Number of Children Born with Down Syndrome
Rapidly advancing prenatal testing technology may soon hand parents the routine decision of what kind of child they will, or won’t, bring into the world. A prime example is Down syndrome, where in...
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