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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. Life

    Good news for giant pandas

    The animal’s immune system has higher than expected genetic diversity, which could lead to better breeding programs.

  2. Genetics

    Groovy surface changes cells’ state

    Physical cues may be as important as chemical ones when trying to revert mature cells to stem-cell-like ones.

  3. Life

    Lab-grown hair offers early hope

    Specific growth conditions could be the key to treating receding hairlines and bald spots, a new study suggests.

  4. Quantum Physics

    Heisenberg’s instinct was accurate

    Scientists develop mathematical proof of quantum physics feature first suggested more than 80 years ago.

  5. First tilted solar system found

    Data from the Kepler spacecraft revealed two planets orbiting their parent star at a 45-degree angle.

  6. Astronomy

    Most distant galaxy lens discovered

    Astronomers have discovered a galaxy about 9.4 billion light-years from Earth that is magnifying the light of an even more distant galaxy. It’s the most distant gravitational lens found to date.

  7. Animals

    Young chimps catch human yawns

    Juvenile chimps yawn contagiously when they see humans do it, a response that could signal the animals are developing empathy.

  8. Astronomy

    Galaxy’s gas molecules reveal its structure

    Astronomers have tracked carbon monoxide flowing both toward and away from NGC 1433’s central supermassive black hole.

  9. Genetics

    Male zebrafish sex tool stops fin regeneration

    Tiny, spiked structures on the pectoral fins of male zebrafish help them hold females steady while mating. However, the structures produce a protein that seems to hinder the fish’s ability to regenerate fins.

  10. Astronomy

    Galaxy’s petal-like structures came from collision

    A cosmic crash of two huge masses of stars, gas and dust probably gave way to a new galactic structure with both young and old star clusters.

  11. Health & Medicine

    Details of new botulinum toxin withheld

  12. Chemistry

    Crystal-crystal contact makes quasicrystal