“In October 2022, Indigenous affairs journalist B. “Toastie” Oaster wrote a High Country News feature about the fate of Pacific lamprey. This lushly written story explores how Indigenous peoples in
View from Storygram: B. “Toastie” Oaster’s “Pacific lamprey’s ancient agreement with tribes is the future of conservation”
Jane Qiu is an independent science writer based in Beijing. She won a AAAS Kavli award in 2016 for this story about environmental issues in Tibet. This annotation was done
View from Storygram: Jane Qiu’s “Trouble in Tibet”
Amy Maxmen’s story, which recounts how anthropologists worked with aid workers and residents to reconcile management of Ebola patients with the culture’s customs, won NASW’s Science in Society Award in
View from Storygram: Amy Maxmen’s “How the fight against Ebola tested a culture’s traditions”
Sarah Wild has written about astronomy, particle physics, and everything in between, and she’s published two books about science in South Africa. Her story about identifying anonymous bodies in South
View from Storygram: Sarah Wild’s “Bones specialists try to prise secrets from the veld bodies”
Natalie Wolchover is a physics writer. She won the Evert Clark/Seth Payne award for young science journalists in 2016 for a series of articles in Quanta magazine, including this profile
View from Storygram: Natalie Wolchover’s “Vision of Future Physics”
Maria Konnikova is the author of two New York Times bestsellers and a contributing writer for The New Yorker. Her story about the up-and-coming science of neurogastronomy (the study of
View from Storygram: Maria Konnikova’s “Altered Tastes”
Cally Carswell, a contributing editor at High Country News, won NASW’s Science in Society Award for science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of
View from Storygram: Cally Carswell’s “The Tree Coroners”
Joshua Sokol is a freelance writer based in Boston. His story introduces readers to the aging victims of the most enduring case of mercury poisoning in the world, which happened
View from Storygram: Joshua Sokol’s “Something in the water: Life after mercury poisoning”
When a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui revealed in November 2018 that twin babies had been born with genes he had edited using CRISPR gene-editing technology, science reporters jumped on
View from Storygram: Antonio Regalado’s “Exclusive: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies”
When a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui revealed in November 2018 that twin babies had been born with genes he had edited using CRISPR gene-editing technology, science reporters jumped on
View from Storygram: Marilynn Marchione’s “Chinese researcher claims first gene-edited babies”
This story about North Atlantic right whales and the horrible violence they face, written by science writer Ed Yong, appeared in The Atlantic on June 27, 2019. Science writer Nadia
View from Storygram: Ed Yong’s “North Atlantic right whales are dying in horrific ways”
Anna Maria Barry-Jester wrote this piece while on the staff of the data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight where she covered public health, immigration, food, and science. This annotation was done by
View from Storygram: Anna Maria Barry-Jester’s “Surviving Suicide in Wyoming”
George Johnson, the author of nine books, is a former reporter and editor at The New York Times. He won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2014 for this
View from Storygram: George Johnson’s “Why everyone seems to have cancer”
Nicola Twilley is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-host of Gastropod, an award-winning podcast about the science and history of food. This story covers the
View from Storygram: Nicola Twilley’s “How the first gravitational waves were found”
Eric Boodman is a reporter at STAT. He won the Evert Clark/Seth Payne award for young science journalists in 2017 for this story, about delusional parasitosis, “a false belief of
View from Storygram: Eric Boodman’s “Accidental Therapists”
Amanda Gefter is a physics writer and won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2015 for this story, which profiles Walter Pitts, a central figure of early cybernetics research.
View from Storygram: Amanda Gefter’s “The man who tried to redeem the world with logic”
Azeen Ghorayshi, science reporter at BuzzFeed News, won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2013 for this tale of a potential early warning earthquake system. This annotation was done
View from Storygram: Azeen Ghorayshi’s “Sounding the Alarm”
Charles Piller is STAT’s West Coast editor and Natalia Bronshtein is STAT’s interactives editor. Together, they won a AAAS Kavli award in 2016 for this story about prestigious medical research
View from Storygram: Charles Piller’s “Failure to Report”
Andrew Grant is the online editor at Physics Today. His story won the American Geophysical Union’s 2014 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. This annotation was done by
View from Storygram: Andrew Grant’s “At last, Voyager 1 slips into interstellar space”
We all know—or need to know—that race intersects with every facet of American life, from the mundane to the momentous. Where you sleep at night, what you eat, where you
View from Storygram: Annie Waldman’s “How hospitals are failing Black mothers”