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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. Astronomy

    Radio telescope images reveal nebula’s heart of carbon

    ALMA takes detailed look at elements surrounding dying star.

  2. Earth

    Map tracks path of dust plume from Chelyabinsk meteor

    Satellite data capture how the jet stream pushed particles through the planet's atmosphere.

  3. Astronomy

    Pictures of young star show unusual outbursts

    Ejections from stellar newborn move faster and in different directions than astronomers thought.

  4. Battle of the deer and eagle

    Camera trap solves mystery of deer downed without a trace.

  5. Materials Science

    Cornering the Terahertz Gap

    Controlling light’s path could enable invisibility or harness an intriguing but so far elusive stretch of the spectrum.

  6. Sequencing the dead to save the living

    Reviving ancient genomes of long-extinct creatures offers a window into past extinctions—and may help prevent future die outs.

  7. Astronomy

    Dead — but not duds

    White dwarfs shed light on physics and the fate of the cosmos.

  8. Planetary Science

    Racing against the Martian winter

    With solid findings under its belt and the Martian summer waning, the Phoenix Mars lander perseveres in its study of the soil and sky of the planet’s arctic plain.

  9. Paleontology

    Dino domination was in the cards, maybe

    A new study finds that early dinosaurs coexisted with and were outnumbered by a competing species. Dinosaurs eventually reigned supreme anyway, but perhaps not because they were better.

  10. Neuroscience

    Highly wired

    Men’s brain tissue shows higher density of neuron connections than similar tissue from women.

  11. Earth

    Mammoth migrations

    Ancient DNA shows North American woolly mammoths migrated back to Asia and displaced Siberian mammoths.

  12. Space

    Cosmic heavyweight

    Astronomers discover the heftiest, most distant galaxy cluster, suggesting evidence for dark energy’s existence.