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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. Quantum Physics

    Electron makes ultracold atoms move as one

    Harnessing the strong particle-gas interaction is early step toward quantum optics applications.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Evidence mounts for bat origins of SARS

    New viruses in the mammals closely match the human form of the infection.

  3. Paleontology

    Fossils suggest ancient sharks survived extinction event

    Diving down deep in the ocean may have helped the fish live through the Great Dying 350 million years ago.

  4. Earth

    Pressure patterns could portend heat waves

    High-pressure systems may help scientists forecast temperature hikes 15 to 20 days out.

  5. Environment

    Polluted water interferes with drug that combats parasitic scourge

    Arsenic contamination fuels resistance to one treatment for leishmaniasis.

  6. Astronomy

    Solar system with seven planets discovered

    Kepler data has identified a star with a seven-planet system structured similarly to the sun’s clutch of planets.

  7. Chemistry

    Oxygen shapes growth of graphene

    The number of atoms on a copper surface changes the size and rate of the material's crystal development.

  8. Math

    Love and Math

    The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel.

  9. Astronomy

    Most distant galaxy discovered

    Astronomers have observed a galaxy as it existed 700 million years after Big Bang.

  10. Astronomy

    Milky Way flutters as it spins

    Galaxy has added motion along its north-south axis.

  11. Genetics

    Dog clone genome nearly identical to donor DNA

    The genetic material of Snuppy and of his donor, Tai, is nearly identical.

  12. Planetary Science

    Carbonation may have grounded Mars’ atmosphere

    The chemical interaction could have forced Red Planet’s atmospheric carbon dioxide into the dirt.