Journalism

Check out some of my recent freelance clips.

Mysterious “Little Red Dots” Give Clues to Early Black Holes’ Formation

A new look at small red galaxies known as “little red dots” reveals that they’re surprisingly abundant in the early universe

MIT Alumni News | In molecules, one chemist sees art

Grad student So Young Lee has long been a choreographer, baker, and painter. In the lab, she applies her creativity to molecule design

A parasitologist holding a jar containing a parasitic worm.

Smithsonian | Parasites Are Everywhere. Why Do So Few Researchers Study Them?

Aging parasitologists are working hard to inspire more students to enter the field

A trash-based floating platform filled with plants.

WIRED | Polluted Lakes Are Being Cleansed Using Floating Wetlands Made of Trash

Platforms combining plants and recycled garbage could offer a cut-price solution for reviving polluted bodies of water

GBH News | New Peabody 'peaker' power plant prepares to go online less green than promised

The plant's owner had said it would run on hydrogen fuel, but it is going to be diesel and natural gas for now

Ars Technica | East Coast has a giant offshore freshwater aquifer—how did it get there?

For water-stressed cities, undersea aquifers could be a submerged solution

Read some of my work from a 6-month news internship at Science.

NASA engineers test the CODEX instrument

NASA instrument to study the mysterious origins of the solar wind

By creating artificial eclipses, CODEX will track bursts of charged particles that stream from the Sun

A photo of farmland underneath the hazy boundary of the atmosphere

Are diamonds Earth’s best friend? Gem dust could cool the planet

Idea would cost trillions, but could avoid issues with other “geoengineering” schemes

A sailboat on still waters during a sunset

What causes the windless doldrums that strand sailors? Find upends previous thinking

Theory suggests sinking tropical air masses, not rising ones, lead to dead calms

A sensor in front of an impending hailstorm

More damaging than tornadoes, hail may finally get the scientific attention it deserves

With drones, mobile radars, and 3D printers, first major field campaign in 45 years to bring hail research “into the 21st century”

A high-elevation plateau in South Africa

Waves rippling under continents could explain mysterious plateaus around the world

Underground churn from ancient continental breakups can explain highlands in Brazil, India, and South Africa

To avoid sea level rise, some researchers want to build barriers around the world’s most vulnerable glaciers

Call to study glacial geoengineering stirs up “civil war” among polar scientists

OTHER STORIES

Science

Advocate for girls in science can now make her pitch in Congress - Dec. 17, 2024

Trump picks billionaire astronaut to lead NASA - Dec. 4, 2024

These spiders capture their prey with deadly accurate slingshot traps - Dec. 4, 2024

Turtles map seagrass better than satellites can - Nov. 26, 2024

Here’s how voters landed on state science issues - Nov. 7, 2024

In some U.S. states, science is on the ballot - Nov. 1, 2024

Imagining faces in tree trunks and your morning eggs? AI can see them, too - Oct. 4, 2024

Scientists discover new kind of gamma ray emission in thunderstorms - Oct. 2, 2024

A river’s new course may have given Mount Everest a ‘growth spurt’ - Sep. 30, 2024

Some octopuses treat fish like hunting buddies - Sep. 23, 2024

ScienceAdviser: What do you do with a drunken worm? - Sep. 16, 2024

Live from the ‘Iggies’: Eight things you didn’t know about science’s wackiest night - Sep. 13, 2024

Watch a ghostly creature carry seaweed upside down on the bottom of the Atlantic - Sep. 10, 2024

‘Nasty’ microorganisms need saving, too - Sep. 6, 2024

Scientists find 41,000-year-old viruses frozen in ice - Aug. 26, 2024

Builders of massive ancient monument understood the science behind their work - Aug. 23, 2024

Sounds from the soil reveal who’s crawling below - Aug. 16, 2024

Does the moon need its own time zone? - Aug. 14, 2024

Terraforming Mars could be easier than scientists thought - Aug. 7, 2024

‘Superpowered’ bats keep their hearing as they age - Jul. 30, 2024

U.S. Senate spending bill sets up congressional clash over research spending - Jul. 26, 2024

Are invasive spotted lanternflies hitching rides across state lines? - Jul. 9, 2024

Sky & Telescope

Chasing the Eclipse From the Air - Mar. 25, 2024

Astronomers Discover 562 New Candidate Strong Lenses with Machine Learning - Dec. 4, 2023

Knight Science Journalism Program

Deborah Balthazar Talks Battling Imposter Syndrome as a Young Science Writer - Apr. 29, 2024

Astronomy Writer Lisa Grossman Makes Space for the Personal - Nov. 13, 2023

Circle of Blue

Dead Tree Standing: Saltwater Threatens Coastal Forests and Ecosystem Services (The Struggle with Salt, Part 3/3) - Sep. 14, 2022

“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt (The Struggle with Salt, Part 2/3) - Aug. 22, 2022

Saltwater Intrusion, a “Slow Poison” to East Coast Drinking Water (The Struggle with Salt, Part 1/3) - Aug. 2, 2022

Living on Earth

Cleaning Up Crypto (Audio) - Nov. 25, 2022

Extinction Threatens 1 In 6 U.S. Trees (Audio) - Sep. 30, 2022

'Forever Chemicals' Are Now Everywhere, Too (Audio) - Sep. 16, 2022

Tigers on the Rebound (Audio) - Sep. 9, 2022

Renters and Climate Change (Audio) - Sep. 9, 2022

Feeding Seaweed to Cows for Lower Emissions (Audio) - Jul. 15, 2022

The Spectrum (The Triple Helix at The University of Chicago)

The Dry Future of the American Plains: Threats to the Ogallala Aquifer - Spring 2022