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I’m Elise, a US-American science journalist living in Graz, Austria. I write about geoscience, physics and language for magazines like Scientific American, Eos, and Science News with a focus on research in Europe.
I’m Elise, a US American science writer living in beautiful Graz, Austria.
My core beat is physics and geoscience, but I also love writing about math and language whenever I can convince an editor to let me. I’ve written for Scientific American, Discover, Science News, AGU’s Eos, Sky & Telescope, and more.
Before I was a science writer, I was a geomicrobiologist at MIT, where I studied how bacteria snot turns into rock. I jumped into writing with a AAAS Mass Media Fellowship at Voice of America. When I’m not hunting down researcher emails or re-re-re-writing a lede, I’m probably either getting lost in some forest, trying to learn a real language, or making up a fake one.
Science Writing
Bizarre Quantum Tunneling Observation Throws Out All the Rules
The strange phenomenon of quantum tunneling has been observed in a chemical reaction that defies classical physics
Read moreYour brain wires itself to match your native language
Wiring patterns seem to reflect grammatical characteristics specific to different languages
Read moreNew Life Found on an Old Rock
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