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Harrison Tasoff
Harrison Tasoff
Harrison Tasoff currently serves as Scienceline’s physical science editor working on stories ranging from special relativity to minerology. Outside of the physical sciences, he has a tender spot for the marine biology beat. Harrison has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College and is pursuing a master’s in science journalism at NYU.
Harrison grew up in sunny Southern California watching science shows and exploring tide pools. He is an avid mineral collector and when he’s not writing you can find him tending his bonsai.
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Harrison Tasoff • February 28, 2018
Marine biologist Alex Vagelli has devoted the last 20 years of his life to studying the endangered Banggai cardinalfish and fighting for its protection
Harrison Tasoff • October 30, 2017
New evidence suggests tiny solar flares heat the sun's atmosphere to thousands of times the temperature of its surface.
Harrison Tasoff • August 18, 2017
The hidden nuclear history of suburban Los Angeles
Harrison Tasoff • July 26, 2017
Powerful rockets were built and tested in a sleepy residential suburb of Los Angeles
Harrison Tasoff • July 3, 2017
Keeping specimen collections in working order is a full-time job
Harrison Tasoff • June 28, 2017
What makes these boulders ring?
Harrison Tasoff • May 31, 2017
Proposed changes to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, our nation’s fishery management law, would compound problems for the nation’s fish
Harrison Tasoff • May 22, 2017
Often overlooked, peatlands emit staggering quantities of carbon dioxide
Harrison Tasoff • April 24, 2017
The first land plants quickly formed relationships with fungi
Harrison Tasoff • April 5, 2017
Countries look to large marine protected areas to conserve our oceans, but the devil is in the details
Harrison Tasoff • March 20, 2017
Climate change is pushing corals, and the biologists hoping to save them, to their limits.
Harrison Tasoff • March 20, 2017
The science behind the phenomenon devastating reefs worldwide
Harrison Tasoff • February 1, 2017
Buckets in hand, ecologists scramble to save the threatened Santa Ana sucker
Harrison Tasoff • December 9, 2016
Despite the name, the flavoring often has little in common with actual pumpkins.
Harrison Tasoff • October 7, 2016
The otters of Monterey Bay are doing well, but their neighbors are still suffering