These are just some of my favorites! You can find a more complete catalog of my work at Science News and Science News Explores.

Features

How to invent a realistic language for fictional speakers (Science News)

Hypnosis isn’t magic. It’s the brain at work (Science News Explores)

STEVE and other aurora-like glows perplex scientists (Science News)

Here’s what lucid dreamers might tell us about our sleeping minds (Science News)

What’s the fun in fear? Science explores the appeal of scary movies (Science News Explores)

News

Trying to break a photon would create a quantum mess (Science News)

‘Butt breathing’ could help people who can’t get oxygen the regular way (Science News)

A cosmic neutrino of unknown origins smashes energy records (Science News)

Timbre can affect what harmony is music to our ears (Science News)

These are the first plants grown in moon dirt (Science News)

Columns

Physics theories about the multiverse are stranger than fiction (Science News)

Here’s how to levitate something without magic (Science News Explores)

Rudolph’s red nose could glow through bioluminescence (Science News Explores)

Comics

Ants are better team players than people (Science News Explores)

Sheep, llamas and goats fall for optical illusions too (Science News Explores)

Secrets of the octopus garden (Science News Explores)

Fish out of water (Science News Explores)

Videos

I’m sorry, did you say nuclear pasta? (Science News TikTok)

Petal to the metal! (Science News TikTok)

The color purple does not exist (Science News TikTok)

Sprites, jets and ELVES, oh my! (Science News TikTok)