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.

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.

See below for our corrections and comments policies, click here to read our republishing guidelines, or contact us at scienceline@gmail.com.

Scienceline Staff

Editor in Chief
Madeline Shaw

Managing Editor
Avril Silva

Social Media & Engagement Editors
Julie Zenderoudi
Nhung Nguyen

Newsletter Editors
Sam Nichols
Georgia Michelman

Digital Editor
Sarah Hofmann

Senior Editors
Alissa de Chassey
Emma Smith

Ask Scienceline
Isabel Gil

Past Contributors

SHERP 43: Miriam Bahagijo, Tom Brown, Gaea Cabico, K.R. Callaway, Marta Hill, Leslie Zhen Liang, Pragathi Ravi, Lauren Schneider, Rambo Talabong, Perri Thaler

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: O. Rose 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