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Abdullahi Tsanni
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Abdullahi Tsanni is a summer 2024 science writing intern at Science News. He earned a master's degree in science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria. His stories have been published in Nature, STAT News and MIT Technology Review, among others.
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- Health & Medicine
A bizarre video of eyeballs confirms our pupils shrink with age
Pupil size can decrease up to 0.4 millimeters per decade, hinting at why it can be increasingly harder for people to see in dim light as they age.