Macon Morehouse

Macon Morehouse

News Director

Macon Morehouse joined Science News in December 2014. As news director, she draws on more than 30 years of journalism experience, from covering Congress at Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report to an eight-year stint in daily newspapers — first at The Charlotte Observer and then at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she was part of the team covering the 1996 Olympic Games, to working in People magazine’s Washington, D.C. bureau, covering presidential campaigns, celebrity fly-ins, as well as medical breakthroughs as the magazine’s national medical correspondent. Prior to joining Science News, she was senior editor at National Geographic Explorer, science-focused classroom magazines for elementary and middle school students. Her love of science news stories and drive to bring those stories to a broad, smart, curious audience brought her to Science News.

All Stories by Macon Morehouse

  1. Science & Society

    ‘The Glass Universe’ celebrates astronomy’s unsung heroines

    In “The Glass Universe,” science writer Dava Sobel shines a light on the women at the Harvard Observatory who mapped the stars.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Special Report: Here’s what we know about Zika

    Tracing Zika’s path and its potential links to microcephaly in babies and Guillain-Barré syndrome has scientists planning a new war on mosquitoes.

  3. Science & Society

    Science puzzles no longer so puzzling

    This year, researchers solved the riddle of mysterious radio bursts, the Erdös discrepancy problem and an elusive acid.

  4. Science & Society

    These truisms proved false in 2015

    Don’t always believe what you hear. These truisms turned out to be false in 2015.