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Like all good journalism, the work of our students, faculty, and alumni speaks for itself. Check out an array of recently published stories below.

 
Scientific American
August 10th, 2016
Hellish Venus Might Have Been Habitable for Billions of Years
Shannon Hall
SHERP 2015
Nature Medicine
August 5th, 2016
A Second Look: Efforts to Repurpose Old Drugs Against Zika Cast a Wide Net
Ellie Kincaid
SHERP, 2016
Nautilus
July 28th, 2016
The Case For Leaving City Rats Alone
Rebecca Cudmore
SHERP 2014
Scientific American
July 14th, 2016
New Concentrating Solar Tower Is Worth Its Salt with 24/7 Power
Knvul Sheikh
SHERP, 2016
The Washington Post
July 13th, 2016
The Twisted Physics Behind the Incredible Sport of ‘Tricking’ (video)
Dyani Sabin
SHERP, 2016
NPR
July 6th, 2016
How Parents Can Help Their Underage Kids Resist Alcohol
Aimee Cunningham
SHERP 2004
The New York Times
June 23rd, 2016
Why Do We Inherit Mitochondrial DNA Only From Our Mothers?
Steph Yin
SHERP 2015
Popular Science
June 21st, 2016
How “Metal Gear Solid” Helped Turn an Amputee into a Maker
Ryan F. Mandelbaum
SHERP, 2016
Environment 360
June 14th, 2016
A Tiny Pacific Nation Takes the Lead on Protecting Marine Life
Emma Bryce
SHERP 2012
The Washington Post
June 1st, 2016
Crabbers Use Sex to Catch Naked Soft-Shell Crabs
Peter Hess
SHERP, 2016
Science Friday
May 25th, 2016
The Truth About Imaginary Friends
Lauren J. Young
SHERP 2015
Wired
May 15th, 2016
Inside EurekAlert, the News Hub That Shapes the Science You Read
Nick Stockton
SHERP 2013
The New York Times
May 13th, 2016
The Lost Gardens of Emily Dickinson
Ferris Jabr
SHERP 2010
Undark
May 13th, 2016
Zika and the Risk of Mosquito Specicide
Lynne Peeples
SHERP 2009
Science Magazine
May 2nd, 2016
Scholars describe exodus from Syria
Knvul Sheikh
SHERP, 2016
Eos
April 28th, 2016
Impacts Might Have Made Ancient Mars Briefly Hospitable to Life
Shannon Hall
SHERP 2015
The New York Times
April 24th, 2016
Grauer’s Gorillas May Soon Be Extinct, Conservationists Say
Rachel Nuwer
Adjunct Faculty
The Atlantic
April 7th, 2016
The Brain That Wasn’t Supposed to Heal
Apoorva Mandavilli
SHERP 1999
National Geographic
April 5th, 2016
Finally, You Can See Dinosaurs in All Their Feathered Glory
Knvul Sheikh
SHERP, 2016
IEEE Spectrum
April 5th, 2016
Five Ways the FBI Might Have Hacked the San Bernardino iPhone
Amy Nordrum
SHERP 2014
@Brookhaven Today
March 28th, 2016
A View of the Colorful Microcosm Within a Proton
Karen McNulty Walsh
SHERP 1989
Stat
March 4th, 2016
Video: A Mother’s Stunning Candor About Her Son’s Microcephaly
Emily Hager
SHERP 2004
Scientific American
February 25th, 2016
Clean Teens at High Risk to Abuse Opioids
Aimee Cunningham
SHERP 2004
Scientific American
February 20th, 2016
Deadly Orangutan Attack: Two Apes Team Up to Kill Another
Knvul Sheikh
SHERP, 2016