NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

These bats learn to eavesdrop—in order to survive (April 29, 2025)

How harnessing the powers of venom could lead to new medicines (Sept. 8, 2021)

NATURE

How a midwife became a neuroscientist to seek a cure for her son (Aug. 20, 2024)

How researchers navigate a PhD later in life (June 25, 2024)

NEW YORK TIMES

This Was Odd: These Monkeys Kidnapped Babies From Another Species (May 19, 2025)

Lasers, Waffle Fries and the Secrets in Pterosaurs’ Tails (Feb. 14, 2025)

Poison Frogs Have a Strange Behavior That Scientists Seek to Explain (Feb. 17, 2024)

Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool  (May 8, 2023)

How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future (Sept. 27, 2022)

Do You Believe Scientists, or Your Dog’s Crying Eyes? (Aug. 22, 2022)

Glowing Bacteria May One Day Protect People From Land Mines (Jun. 21, 2021)

QUANTA MAGAZINE

‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys (May 19, 2025)

Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing (Oct. 11, 2024)

Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy (March 18, 2024)

Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Hold Clues to Persistent Mysteries (Feb. 8, 2021)

Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health (Aug. 10, 2020)

Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars (Nov. 11, 2019)

AEON MAGAZINE (PSYCHE)

What I learned about coping and resilience from asteroid Bennu (Aug. 21, 2023)

HAKAI MAGAZINE

In Hot Water, Clownfish Grow Up Quick (Sept. 20, 2023)

The Coolest Library on >arth (June 13, 2023)
| Also in Mother Jones |

UNDARK MAGAZINE

Opinion: Infertility Is a Mental Health Bombshell (March 13, 2025)
| Also in Slate |

Book Review: How Motherhood Alters the Brain (Oct. 28, 2022)

Podcast: When Accents Speak Louder Than Words (May 31, 2022)

Book Review: The Molecules Behind Brain Diseases (Feb. 11, 2022)
| Also in Salon |

To Learn How Covid Affects the Ear, Scientists Turn to Cadavers (Jan. 6, 2022)

Book Review: Lessons Learned From the Wayward Brain (July 16, 2021)

WASHINGTON POST

What Scoliosis Feels Like, and How to Ease Pain When It Flares Up (April 29, 2024)

In Italy’s Dolomite Mountains, A Peak Experience for Hikers (April 29, 2022)

Chawne Kimber Quilts for Social Justice (Dec. 23, 2020)

Stress Over COVID Worsens OCD Symptoms In Some Kids (Sept. 10, 2020)

Scientists fight disease-carrying mosquitoes by letting them feed off their blood (Aug. 23, 2020)

WIRED

An Inclusive, Cyberpunk Future Is In the Cards (Feb. 2, 2021)

How Old-School Text Adventures Inspired Our Virtual Spaces (Jan. 14, 2021)

They Found Community, and Then Love, in Online Games (Dec. 1, 2020)

Tech Confronts Its Use of the Labels ‘Master’ and ‘Slave’ (July 6, 2020)

CNN

The following is a small sample of articles I wrote as a writer/producer on staff at CNN Digital from 2008 to 2014:

Religious OCD: ‘I’m Going to Hell’ (May 31, 2014)

Young Blood Makes Old Mice More Youthful (May 5, 2014)

How Your Brain Makes Moral Judgments (Mar. 27, 2014)

How Poverty Might Change the Brain (June 13, 2013)

His Other Car is on Mars (Aug. 6, 2012)

The Foer Questions: Literary Wunderkind Turns 35 (Mar. 5, 2012)

Pieces of Crystal: Homeless and HIV-positive in Atlanta (Nov. 30, 2011)

On Pi Day, One Number ‘Reeks of Mystery’ (Mar. 12, 2010)

Parents of Suicide Find ‘Immediate Bond’ in Each Other (Mar. 9, 2010)

Colliding with Nature’s Best Kept Secrets (May 9, 2008)

DISCOVER

Physicists Discover a ‘Quarky’ Quintet (Nov. 30, 2015)

Batteries Safe Enough to Eat (Apr. 30, 2015)

GIZMODO

I Had My First Kiss in GemStone III (Sept. 30, 2020)

GOOD

This 11-Year-Old Knows Way More About Mammoths Than You (Oct. 13, 2015)

MARIE CLAIRE

‘I’m 33 and I’ve Never Been Kissed’ (May 26, 2016)

MOTHERBOARD (VICE)

Peer Inside These Gemstones (June 26, 2017)

NAUTILUS

We’re All Math People (Nov. 9, 2023)

Are All Brains Good at Math? (Aug 31, 2022)

How to Understand Extreme Numbers (Feb. 17, 2017)

The Rituals That Ward Off Bad Luck Arern’t Arbitrary (Jan. 10, 2017)

NEW SCIENTIST

Your Inner Hoarder: Why Letting Go Is So Hard to Do (April 26, 2017)

The Big Bang Blip: Solving the Mystery of Why Matter Exists (May 20, 2015 – cover story)

English Speakers, You Stink at Identifying Smells (Mar. 25, 2015)

How Your Life Changes When You Win a Nobel Prize (Oct. 6, 2014)

I Won the Nobel Prize by Experimenting on Myself (Aug. 6, 2014)

PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY

Chris Hirata *05: Studying the Far Side of the Final Frontier (Nov. 7, 2018)

Economist Elizabeth E. Bailey *72 Looks Back on a Pioneering Career (Oct. 4, 2017)

Jamal Motlagh ’06 and Michael Zhang ’08, Custom Clothing Gurus (Sept. 21, 2016)

Bettina Korek ’00: Art and Life (May 13, 2015)

Essay: Forbes for Life (April 1, 2015)

SCIENCE

Labeling Fish, Labeling People (June 12, 2020)

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Remembering Mathematical Magician John Conway (April 20, 2020)

Chasing Copernicus in Poland (Dec. 7, 2018)

Blink and It’s Over: Short-Duration, High-Impact Experiences of 2017 (Dec. 27, 2017)

The Last Woman to Win a Physics Nobel (Sept. 26, 2017)

Scientists: Advertise Your Failures! (Sept. 25, 2017)

The Tao of Tau (June 27, 2017)

Don’t Read That Rave Review! Getting Off the Hedonic Treadmill (Aug. 25, 2016)

Commitment for Millennials: Is It Okay, Cupid? (Feb. 8, 2016)

Why Do We Use Pet Names in Relationships? (Feb. 12, 2015)

Vasopressin Emerges As Hormone of Interest in Autism Research (Sept. 11, 2015)

Science Museums Adapt In Struggle Against Creationist Revolution (July 12, 2007)

SMITHSONIAN

A Century Ago, Pioneering Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Showed Us What Stars Are Made Of (March 19, 2025)

What Data Scientists Learned by Modeling the Spread of Covid-19 (June 11, 2021)

How Much Did Grandmothers Influence Human Evolution? (Jan. 4, 2021)

Anxious About Election Results? Here’s What’s Happening in Your Brain as You Wait (Nov. 3, 2020)

The Maya Ruins at Uxmal Still Have More Stories to Tell (June 17, 2020)

The Fibonacci Sequence Is Everywhere—Even the Troubled Stock Market (March 25, 2020)

How the Mathematical Conundrum Called the ‘Knapsack Problem’ Is All Around Us (March 9, 2020)

How Charlotte Moore Sitterly Wrote the Encyclopedia of Starlight (Sept. 23, 2019)

Total Solar Eclipse 100 Years Ago Proved Einstein’s General Relativity (May 24, 2019)

What the Obsolete Art of Mapping the Skies on Glass Plates Can Still Teach Us (April 15, 2019)

The 17th-Century Astronomer Who Made the First Atlas of the Moon (Dec. 27, 2018)

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Oil Prices Continue Upward March (Oct. 27, 2007)

Crude Slips Again, to $85.27 (Oct. 24, 2007)

Crude Falls on Stronger Dollar, Economic Worries (Oct. 23, 2007)

Oil Tests Another High, Falls on Supply Concern (Oct. 18, 2007)

Crude Sinks as Stock Rally (Oct. 2, 2007)

Crude Surges Past $85 (Oct. 15, 2007)

Crude-Oil Price Tops $83 On Surprising Supply Data (Oct. 12, 2007)

Oil Rebounds As U.S. Forecasts Rise in Demand (Oct. 10, 2007)

Demand Forecast Boosts Crude (Oct. 9, 2007)

Crude Rallies (Sept. 27, 2007)

Crude Falls Below $80 a Barrel (Sept. 26, 2007)