2022
It’s a Bad Time to Be a Booster Slacker - The Atlantic, October 2022
The Brilliant 10: The Top Up-and-Coming Minds in Science - Popular Science, October 2022
Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy? - The Atlantic, October 2022
The Surreal Abundance of Alaska’s Permafrost Farms - The New Yorker, August 2022
The Odds of Getting COVID From Your Housemate Are ‘About a Coin Flip’ - The Atlantic, August 2022
America Is Running Out of ‘COVID Virgins’ - The Atlantic, July 2022
How Are We Possibly Still Disinfecting Things? - The Atlantic, July 2022
Book Chapter: Misinformation - MIT Knight Science Journalism Handbook, July 2022
Animals We’ve Lost: the 15 Carp Species That Disappeared From a Single Lake - The Guardian, July 2022
The future of plant-based meat - Quartz, June 2022
Why This COVID Wave Feels Different - The Atlantic, June 2022
Helen Thompson Woolley showed biology does not define gender - Popular Science, May 2022
Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly uncovered what makes us tick - Popular Science, May 2022
Chien-Shiung Wu’s work defied the laws of physics - Popular Science, May 2022
Is America in the Middle of an Invisible COVID Wave? - The Atlantic, April 2022
Is it Time to Start Masking Again? - The Atlantic, April 2022
If We Ever Find Life on Mars, You Can Thank Nagin Cox - The Daily Beast, March 2022
Post-Omicron Life Can Be Downright Maddening - The Atlantic, February 2022
A Brief History of Putting Animal Parts Into People - Slate, February 2022
What causes long Covid? Scientists are zeroing in on the answer. - Vox, January 2022
What You Can Actually Do After an Omicron Infection - The Atlantic, January 2022
2021
Don’t Be Surprised When You Get Omicron - The Atlantic, December 2021
From pandemic to endemic: this is how we might get back to normal - The Guardian, December 2021
How Easily Can Vaccinated People Spread Covid? - The Atlantic, November 2021
Poop From Meat Eaters Is Killing Coral Reefs - The Daily Beast, November 2021
The Covid-19 Resistance - Cero Magazine, November 2021
The Myth of Generations, Debunked - Popular Science, October 2021
The Booster Shot Debate Was a Debacle - The Atlantic, October 2021
Why Are Americans Still—Still!—Wearing Cloth Masks? - The Atlantic, October 2021
Brandon Taylor Turns His "Science Brain" to Short Stories - Cero Magazine, October 2021
How Pharmacists Are Dealing With the Surge of Shady Ivermectin Prescriptions - Slate, September 2021
Stop Calling It a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’ - The Atlantic, September 2021
Meet the Black Farmers Fighting Food Deserts in New York - Vice, September 2021
The Real Reason Everyone Is Quitting Their Jobs Right Now - Fortune, September 2021
Community Watch: Activists in ACLU’s Community Control Over Police Surveillance Program - ACLU Magazine, August 2021
Why has the CDC stopped collecting data on breakthrough Covid cases? - The Guardian, August 2021
Can You Get Long COVID if You’re Vaccinated? - Slate, August 2021
The Tech That Wants to Help You Sleep - Quartz, June 2021
Dinuguan by Any Other Name (Is Still Dinuguan) - Bon Appétit, June 2021
Remembering America’s First Filipino Settlement Before It Vanishes Into The Sea - The Huffington Post, June 2021
What I Gained From Self-Defense Class in the Wake of Anti-Asian Attacks - New York Times, June 2021
Asian Women Are Not a ‘Temptation’ - GEN, March 2021
Kicking the Air With a Bunch of Retirees Is the Only Thing Keeping Me Going - Elemental, March 2021
2020
I’m a science journalist covering Covid-19. Cooking felt grounding and manageable—until it wasn’t - The Counter, August 2020
If Speaking Up Feels Awkward, You’re Doing It Right - Forge, June 2020
A Guide to Protesting During a Pandemic - Elemental, June 2020
‘I Like To Meet the Big Giraffey’: Little Kids Explain Why They Love Zoom - OneZero, March 2020
A Battery Breakthrough Could End Lithium-Ion’s Reign - OneZero, March 2020
The Before Times
Eating Roadkill Is Our Future, and That’s Okay - OneZero, October 2019
Synthetic Psychedelics May Soon Replace Your Shrooms - OneZero, October 2019
Genetics Researchers Just Disproved a Long-Held Racist Assumption - Inverse, October 2017
Physicists Are at War Over the Discovery of Metallic Hydrogen - Inverse, March 2017