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Rebecca Sohn

Rebecca Sohn is a science writer and poet based in New York City. As someone with a background in the arts, Rebecca frequently writes about science, art, and culture. A former English major, Rebecca loves storytelling, and hopes to write stories that place scientific understanding in a greater societal context. When she isn’t reporting, you can find Rebecca thinking about her next science poem, playing her fiddle, or attending a local contra dance.

Image of lines of people contra dancing in a large room with wooden floors.

Taking the “folk” out of folk culture

Audio

Rebecca Sohn • September 28, 2020

Folk dancing and music communities are struggling to stay connected in a time of separation

Image of a spruce grouse - a turkey-sized bird with brown and grey feathers and a rim of red around its eyes - in a tree.

This pine needle-eating bird is disappearing from Adirondack forests

Environment

Rebecca Sohn • August 1, 2020

Even as conservationists seek to save spruce grouse, their decline may signal broader issues for forest birds

Image of Mount Katahdin in Maine with a lone figure on it silhouetted against a cloudy, misty sky.

Garrett Fondoules: Being alone on and off the Appalachian Trail

Environment

Rebecca Sohn • June 17, 2020

Even for a perpetual hiker used to isolation, social distancing poses a challenge

Image of a young women sitting on a bed in dark room on a laptop computer

The early bird gets the worm. The night owl gets — worse health?

Health

Rebecca Sohn • April 10, 2020

New research explores the risks of being late to sleep and late to rise

Image of wireless headphones on a table with electrodes on the inside of the band

Just because you can stimulate your brain with these headphones doesn’t mean you should

Tech

Rebecca Sohn • March 18, 2020

Scientists and consumers are divided on whether brain-stimulating tech is ready for its moment in the spotlight

A young woman sleeps on a double bed in a dark room, her face buried in the covers.

A new law could make teens better students — with sleep

Health

Rebecca Sohn • December 16, 2019

Momentum grows for sleep-more, learn-later school policies around the United States, with California as the pilot

Image of the Eagle Nebula, which is a cloud of gas and dust again a colorful cosmic background. This image is often referred to "The Pillars of Creation" because it looks like pillars and could be similar to what early galaxies looked like.

Two ways of gazing at the stars

Space, Physics, and Math

Rebecca Sohn • October 17, 2019

An astrophysicist and a poet discover they have much in common