Please see links below for selected articles.

Food and Agriculture

Not so vanilla: The mission to spice up our favourite flavour – New Scientist, 2021

How does a crop’s environment shape a food’s smell and taste? – Science News, 2020

This Would Be a Really Great Moment for Food Delivery Robots – Slate, 2020

Crop researchers harness artificial intelligence to breed crops for the changing climate– PNAS Front Matter, 2020

Universities move science labs to the kitchen– PNAS Front Matter, 2020

Scientists Are Fighting For The Stricken Pickle Against This Tricky Disease – NPR.org, 2018

Opinion: How I Learned To Face Food Waste And Plan Smarter – NPR.org, 2018

On Christmas Eve, Pass the Pierogi and the Memories – NPR.org, 2017

Companies seek food safety using a microbiome approach – PNAS Front Matter, 2017

Vegetable breeders turn to chefs for flavor boost – PNAS Front Matter, 2017

‘What The Fluff?’ Celebrates A Century Of Peanut Butter’s Marshmallow Friend – NPR.org, 2017

Why Do Parrots (And People) Eat Clay? – NPR.org, 2017

How My Little Community Garden Plot Went From Flop To Flourish – NPR.org, 2017

Mozzarella Magic – NPR.org, 2017

This Modern Meadery Is Making Honey Wine Hip – With Hops – NPR.org, 2016

Meet Hing: The Secret-Weapon Spice Of Indian Cuisine – NPR.org, 2016

Water Ice, Philly’s Classic Summer Cooler, Gets Hot Across The Country – NPR.org, 2016

Slice, Dice, Chop Or Julienne: Does The Cut Change The Flavor? – NPR.org, 2016

Ecology and Evolution

Neuroscientists Reach for More Branches on the Tree of Life – BioScience, 2020

Cities serve as testbeds for evolutionary change – PNAS Front Matter, 2019

Journal entries, maps, and photos help ecologists reconstruct ecosystems of the past – PNAS Front Matter, 2018

Can microbes keep time for forensic investigators? – PNAS Front Matter, 2017

Can animal culture drive evolution? – PNAS Front Matter, 2017

Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet – New Scientist, 2016

Health

How “forever chemicals” might impair the immune system – PNAS Front Matter, 2021

Scientists want to build a Noah’s Ark for the human microbiome – Science News, 2020

The race to patch the human heart – PNAS Front Matter, 2018

Mutation helps Zika virus evolve to more easily infect mosquitoes, spread infection – PNAS Front Matter, 2017

Athletes Go For Gold With Red Spots Blazing – NPR.org, 2016

‘Nose-y’ Bacteria Could Yield A New Way To Fight Infection – NPR.org, 2016

Turning Down The Background Noise Could Help Toddlers Learn – NPR.org, 2016

What Puts The Waddle In The Walk Of Moms-To-Be? – NPR.org, 2016

How The Microbes Inside Us Went From Enemies To Purported Superhealers, A Q&A with author Ed Yong about “I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life” – NPR.org, 2016

Environment

Expedition artists paint a picture of science exploration – PNAS Front Matter, 2021

Painting with invasive pigments – PNAS Front Matter, 2018

Arctic photographers bring climate change into focus – PNAS Front Matter, 2017

Predicting Phenotypes in a Changing Climate – BioScience, 2017

Phytoremediation advances in the lab but lags in the field – PNAS Front Matter, 2017

The Microbiome of Green Design – BioScience, 2016

Technology

Wearable tech meets tattoo art in a bid to revolutionize both – PNAS Front Matter, 2018

Can robots make good teammates? – PNAS Front Matter, 2018

Sentient architecture promises insight into our evolving relationship with AI – PNAS Front Matter, 2018

Science Careers

Biology Graduate Programs Educating Students for Life beyond Academia – BioScience, 2018

Musicians join scientists to explore data through sound – PNAS Front Matter, 2017

FOJBI: Meet Carolyn Beans, Roadside Scientist Turned Science Journalist – NPR.org, 2016

Confessions of a Herbarium-Savvy Field Biologist – American Scientist’s Macroscope Blog, 2015

Roadside Science – Nature, 2013