About Scienceline
Scienceline is a student-run online magazine published by the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. For more information, e-mail us. See below for our corrections and comments policies.
Scienceline’s writers and editors are unpaid but you can express support for them and their work by making a tax-deductible contribution to a university-administered SHERP scholarship fund, the proceeds of which are used solely to benefit future SHERP students via tuition-remission scholarships.
Scienceline Staff
Editor in Chief
Marta Hill
Managing Editor
K.R. Callaway
Graphics and Social Media
Lauren Schneider
Newsletter Editor
Gaea Cabico
Multimedia Editor
Rambo Talabong
Senior Editors
Tom Brown
Leslie Zhen Liang
Fact Checking
Miriam Bahagijo
Pragathi Ravi
Copy Editors
Perri Thaler
Past Contributors
SHERP 42: Dawn Attride, Humberto Basilio, Olivia Gieger, Sara Hashemi, Jenaye Johnson, Carrie Klein, Gayoung Lee, Kohava Mendelsohn, Nana Mohammed, Avery Orrall, Alexa Robles-Gil
SHERP 41: Timmy Broderick, Emily Driehaus, Anna Gibbs, Madison Goldberg, Gina Jimenez, Ellyn Lapointe, Calli McMurray, Kiley Price, Gwendolyn Rak, Marlowe Starling, Alice Sun, Lori Youmshajekian
SHERP 40: Maiya Focht, Kharishar Kahfi, Delaney Dryfoos, Lyric Aquino, Niranjana Rajalakshmi, Allison Parshall, Daniel Leonard, Hannah Loss, Debbie Balthazar, Emily Harris, Tatum McConnell
SHERP 39: Casey Crownhart, Huanjia Zhang, Ethan Freedman, Niko McCarty, Joanna Thompson, Abe Musselman, Lauren Leffer, Jackie Appel, Delger Erdenesanaa, Elana Spivack, Anna Goshua, Karen Kwon
SHERP 38: Hannah Seo, Rahul Rao, Maria Paula Rubiano, Jonathan Moens, Curtis Segarra, Leto Sapunar, Corryn Wetzel, Anushree Dave, Rebecca Sohn, Taylor White, Lili Pike, M.K. Manoylov
SHERP 37: Passant Rabie, Polina Porotsky, Jess Romeo, Tara Santora, Isobel Whitcomb, Donavyn Coffey, Marcus Banks, Dana Najjar, Marion Renault, Dani Leviss, Nina Pullano
SHERP 36: Jessica Boddy, Lucy Hicks, Jillian Mock, Lexi Krupp, Shoshana Wodinsky, Emiliano Rodriguez Mega, Charlie Wood, Matthew Phelan, Jen Monnier, Brianna Abbott, Nell Durfee, Chloe Williams
SHERP 35: Eleanor Cummins, Ashley Lyles, Nicole Wetsman, Ellen Airhart, Cici Zhang, Abigail Fagan, Mark Kaufman, Leslie Nemo, Dan Robitzski, Marissa Shieh, Harrison Tasoff
SHERP 34: Dyani Sabin, Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Sara Chodosh, Meghan Bartels, Greg Uyeno, Knvul Sheikh, Michael Koziol, Shira Polan, Ellie Kincaid, Kelsey Kennedy, Jeanette Ferrara, Peter Hess, Sandy Ong
SHERP 33: Lydia Chain, Chelsey B. Coombs, Katherine Ellen Foley, Jennifer Hackett, Shannon Hall, Rebecca Harrington, JoAnna Klein, Nicole J. Lou, Hanneke Weitering, Steph Yin, Lauren J. Young
SHERP 32: Rebecca Cudmore, Kathryn Free, Chelsea Harvey, Joshua A. Krisch, Sarah Lewin, Jillian Rose Lim, Claire Maldarelli, Elizabeth Newbern, Hannah Newman, Amy Nordrum, Alexandra Ossola, Neel V. Patel, Krystnell A. Storr, Manasi Vaidya
SHERP 31: Kate Baggaley, Caitlin Q. Davis, Rachel Feltman, Joss Fong, Ben Guarino, Andrew P. Han, William Herkewitz, Katie Hiler, Roni Jacobson, Sarah Jacoby, Alexa C. Kurzius, Lily Hay Newman, Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Naveena Sadasivam, Nick Stockton
SHERP 30: Emma Bryce, Jonathan Chang, Kathryn Doyle, Laura Geggel, Justine Hausheer, Miriam Kramer, Taylor Kubota, Virat Markandeya, Susan E. Matthews, Allison T. McCann, Benjamin Plackett, Kelly Slivka, Ashley Taylor, Kate Yandell
SHERP 29: Joey Castro, Francie Diep, Rose Eveleth, Sarah Fecht, Mary Beth Griggs, Lena Groeger, Madeleine Johnson, Douglas Main, Rachel Nuwer, Katie Palmer, Sabrina Richards, Madhu Venkataramanan, Stephanie Warren, Amber Williams
SHERP 28: Ariel Bleicher, Michael Glenn Easter, Emily Elert, Joanna Foster, Zach Gottlieb, Mara Grunbaum, Ferris Jabr, Alyson Kenward, Olivia Koski, Alex Liu, Mike Orcutt, Katie Peek, Valerie Ross, Anna Rothschild
SHERP 27: Allison Bond, Shelley Dubois, Crystal Gammon, Robert Goodier, Brett Israel, Frederik Joelving, Lindsey Konkel, Dave Levitan, Erik Ortlip, Lynne Peeples, Genevra Pittman, Rachael Rettner, Carina Storrs
SHERP 26: Molika Ashford, Stuart Fox, Andrew Grant, Adam T. Hadhazy, Karina Hamalainen, Monica Heger, Christopher Intagliata, Susannah F. Locke, Rachel Mahan, Eric R. Olson, Natalie Peretsman, Greg Soltis, Victoria Stern, Katherine Tweed
SHERP 25: Andrea Anderson, Lindsey Bewley, Rachele Cooper, Emily V. Driscoll, Jeremy Hsu, Meredith Knight, Ben Leach, Jennifer Moser, Morgen E. Peck, Kristin Elise Phillips, Josh Romero, Peter Sergo, Molly Webster, Erica Westly
SHERP 24: Sabina Borza, Susan Cosier, Ciara Curtin, Kristina Fiore, Bob Grant, Andrew Klein, Julie Leibach, Melissa Mahony, Karen Schrock, Alison Snyder, Andrea Thompson, Melinda Wenner, Edyta Zielinska
Friends: Amanda DeMatto, Jessie Jiang, Christine Kelly, Cassie Rodenberg
Faculty Advisor
Ivan Oransky, MD
Distinguished Writer in Residence, New York University
Publisher
Dan Fagin
Professor, New York University
Director, SHERP
Corrections Policy
Here at Scienceline, we do our best to be accurate at all times. But after all, we’re only human, so once in a while we do screw up. Please contact us if you think we’ve made a mistake. We will correct serious factual errors in the body of the offending article and append a note explaining the change. Typos, punctuation errors, and misspellings will be corrected without notice.
Comments Policy
Due to an increase in spam, Scienceline will be screening comments before they are posted. Approved comments should appear within 48 hours. Inappropriate or offensive posts will not be tolerated.
Blog Photo Credits
The Bestiary: Riccardo Cuppini, flickr.com; Elucidata: Katie Peek; Ever Wondered: Katie Peek; The Scienceline Podcast: visual.dichotomy, flickr.com; Scienceline Staff Picks: Lena Groeger; Sniff: Ritchie King; Sounds Like Science: Tessa Watson, flickr.com; Test Tube Kitchen; Mykl Roventine, flickr; The Doug Addict: Lena Groeger; The Rocks Know: Mary Beth Griggs; The Urban Scientist: Jason Arends, flickr.com