How does an electric fish get its charge?
Read now →An accidental genome duplication (or two) created the highest frequency electrical discharge known in animals.
I’m a postdoctoral fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University, where I study how of lamprey-specific pesticides damage fish mitochondria. During my PhD at McMaster University, I studied how killifish cope with periods of low oxygen. Outside the lab, I’m a science writer with work appearing in Nature, PBS Eons, The Conversation, the Canadian Science Publishing Blog, and elsewhere. My first Massive Science article came out in 2017.
Tracking the history – and future – of the world's largest penguin breeding colony
Read now →Climate change is upending migration patterns that predate Cleopatra
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When you smell the roses, do they smell you back?
Read now →Scientists have found that plants like Canada goldenrod deploy defenses against insects on scent
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Whale sharks' huge bodies mean they've never really been cold-blooded
Read now →Studying these enormous animals requires close collaboration between scientists and aquariums
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Meet Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who figured out what the universe is made of
Read now →Stifled by sexism in Europe, she made foundational discoveries in astronomy after coming to the US
How to become a galaxy hunter: an interview with Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
Read now →The University of Chicago astronomer talks about getting a galaxy named after herself and fighting for telescope time
Chameleons do more than change color – their bones glow in the dark
Read now →Famous for camouflage, their visual communication turns out to run even deeper
Meet mathematician Emmy Noether, mother of the most beautiful theorem in the world
Read now →She worked out a kink in general relativity and kickstarted the field of abstract algebra
Meet Vera Rubin, the stargazer who predicted dark matter
Read now →From childhood, she preferred 'to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep'
Four facts about Jane Goodall, primatologist, anthropologist, and activist
Read now →Her unorthodox research showed us that chimpanzees are far more human than we thought
Life is evolving through a hurricane of human pollution
Read now →Animals are adapting to pollutants in surprising and often costly ways
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How to stop catfish from foisting their babies on you
Read now →Fish don’t have a reputation for smarts, but species that co-evolved with catfish know to avoid them
Life on the savanna is a duel between agility and strength
Read now →Survival of the fittest evolves in the genes
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Why the first vertebrates to leave the ocean learned to see before they could walk
Read now →Advanced eyesight might have paved the way for better brains and complex thought
Goldfish can survive without oxygen for months by basically getting drunk
Read now →"It's bizarre to see this kind of enzyme in anything with a face"
Humans appear to be worse for animals than radioactive fallout
Read now →Chernobyl's nuclear disaster reveals the unpredictability of evolution
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Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever
Read now →She survived world wars, anti-Semitism, and decades of exposure to early radiochemistry
Drug repurposing gave remdesivir its second, third, and fourth chance
Read now →The antiviral has had a charmed life, failing multiple times but coming back again and again
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Sanguine glimpses of positive environmental change on pandemic-Twitter
Read now →Homebound humans allow Mother Nature to stretch her legs, but that doesn't mean our current situation is a good thing
How does Pfizer’s "90% effective" COVID-19 vaccine work?
Read now →Pfizer made a big news splash, but is their mRNA vaccine a silver bullet?
Microscopic worms pee milk on their children as their bodies decompose
Read now →C. elegans turn their aging bodies into food for their children
Unhatched turtle embryos can shape their own sexual destinies
Read now →By moving to cooler areas inside the egg, turtle embryos can influence their own sex, and maybe ward off climate change too
Four things you need to know about hurricanes, according to Massive
Read now →Climate change, mental illness, and disease outbreaks
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Cats are like tiny, judgmental camels
Read now →Hailing from the desert, cats sneer in the face of heatwaves
There's life in one of the hottest, saltiest, most acidic, most contaminated places on Earth
Read now →And the scientists who found it got pictures