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Ashley Yeager

Associate News Editor

Ashley Yeager is the associate news editor at Science News. Previously, she worked at The Scientist, where she was an associate editor for nearly three years. She has also worked as a freelance editor and writer, and as a writer at the Simons Foundation, Duke University and the W.M. Keck Observatory. She was the web producer for Science News from 2013 to 2015, and was an intern at the magazine in the summer of 2008. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a master’s degree in science writing from MIT. Her book, Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter and Beyond, on the life of astronomer Vera Rubin, will be published by MIT Press in August.

All Stories by Ashley Yeager

  1. Anthropology

    Richard III to be reburied in Leicester Cathedral

    The remains of Richard III will be reburied in Leicester, a British court ruled on May 23.

  2. Computing

    Diffusion may keep big knots out of DNA

    A new computer simulation shows the way two knots on a strand of DNA could pass through each other without adding any additional snarls.

  3. Health & Medicine

    Dengue risk forecasted for soccer World Cup in Brazil

    Three Brazilian cities — Recife, Fortaleza and Natal — have the highest risk for outbreaks of dengue fever, according to a new early warning system.

  4. Ecosystems

    Deep-sea trawling threatens oceans’ health

    Dragging large nets along the seafloor to catch fish cuts organic matter and biodiversity in half and may threaten all of the world's underwater ecosystems.

  5. Planetary Science

    Rosetta spacecraft’s comet develops dusty envelope

    Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the target of ESA’s Rosetta mission, has developed a dust coma.

  6. Health & Medicine

    How Kawasaki disease may blow in with the wind

    The origin of Kawasaki disease has been linked to farmlands in northeastern China.

  7. Environment

    Fukushima contamination affects butterfly larvae

    Butterfly larvae fed leaves with radioactive cesium from the Fukushima nuclear disaster had a higher rate of death and development abnormalities than larvae that got leaves from a location farther from the accident.

  8. Paleontology

    Fragments of long-bodied dino found in Argentina

    Named Leinkupal laticauda, the new species dino probably lived into the early Cretaceous period, which began roughly 145 million years ago.

  9. Health & Medicine

    Small molecule aids recovery from radiation sickness

    A drug for radiation sickness is a small step toward the larger goal of making effective treatments for human radiation exposure, whether as a medical treatment or after a nuclear disaster.

  10. Paleontology

    Giant 17-million-year-old fossil sperm found

    Giant sperm have been found in 17-million-year-old fossilized mussel shrimp. The specimens, collected in Queensland, Australia, sport the oldest petrified sex cells on record.

  11. Health & Medicine

    Red wine’s resveratrol not linked to healthier life

    Consuming the compound resveratrol in foods is thought to improve health, but it may not actually have anti-inflammatory or anticancer effects.

  12. Health & Medicine

    Second MERS case in U.S. confirmed

    A second health care worker has been diagnosed with MERS coronavirus in the United States.