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Allison Parshall
Allison Parshall
Allison Parshall is a multimedia science journalist with a background in cognitive science. She has also written for Quanta Magazine, Scientific American and Inverse and Scienceline. She holds a bachelor’s in psychology from Georgetown University and is finishing a master’s in science, health and environmental reporting from New York University.
Allison Parshall • July 29, 2022
The people of the South Bronx have almost no access to their own coast. South Bronx Unite’s Arif Ullah is working to change that.
Allison Parshall • June 29, 2022
Our brains are easily fooled into taking ownership of a virtual body, decades of psychology research shows
Allison Parshall • June 17, 2022
Cultured meat promises to be better for animals, public health and the planet. Will we eat it?
Allison Parshall • February 17, 2022
These master musicians use the fundamental principles of sound to sculpt their overtone harmonies
Allison Parshall • February 16, 2022
With microscopic human tissues and advanced algorithms, testing new drugs in humans could become more efficient
Allison Parshall • December 13, 2021
As the long-awaited launch of the James Webb Space Telescope approaches, astronomers just picked its successor’s successor.
Allison Parshall • November 19, 2021
Scientists are recruiting phages, bacteria’s natural predators, as the antibiotic resistance crisis worsens.