Physics writer Emily Conover joined Science News in 2016. She has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, where she studied the weird ways of neutrinos, tiny elementary particles that can zip straight through the Earth. She got her first taste of science writing as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She has previously written for Science Magazine and the American Physical Society. She is a two-time winner of the D.C. Science Writers’ Association Newsbrief award.

All Stories by Emily Conover

  1. Particle Physics

    Early tests pave the way for a giant neutrino detector

    A prototype detector demonstrates the technology needed for the DUNE experiment.

  2. Life

    Here’s how clumps of honeybees may survive blowing in the wind

    Honeybees clumped on trees may adjust their positions to keep the cluster together when it’s jostled by wind, a new study suggests.

  3. Physics

    Nuclear pasta in neutron stars may be the strongest material in the universe

    Simulations suggest that the theoretical substance known as nuclear pasta is 10 billion times as strong as steel.

  4. Physics

    Sound waves can make bubbles in levitated drops of liquid

    A new technique reveals how to make bubbles from droplets suspended in the air.

  5. Physics

    A new hydrogen-rich compound may be a record-breaking superconductor

    The record for the highest-temperature superconductor may be toast.

  6. Quantum Physics

    Rubidium atoms mimic the Eiffel Tower, a Möbius strip and other 3-D shapes

    Scientists have arranged atoms of the element rubidium into complex three-dimensional structures.

  7. Particle Physics

    Electrons surf protons’ waves in a new kind of particle accelerator

    For the first time, scientists accelerated electrons using plasma waves from proton beams.

  8. Particle Physics

    An elusive Higgs boson decay has finally been spotted

    Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider confirm that the Higgs boson decays into bottom quark pairs.

  9. Quantum Physics

    Quantum computer simulates two types of bizarre materials

    In calculations involving about 2,000 quantum bits, a D-Wave machine reproduced the behavior of exotic substances.

  10. Chemistry

    See the ‘periodic table’ of molecular knots

    A new table of knots points the way to twisting molecules in increasingly complex pretzels.

  11. Quantum Physics

    A new quantum device defies the concepts of ‘before’ and ‘after’

    Two events can happen in different orders at the same time, thanks to quantum physics.

  12. Particle Physics

    Ghostly antineutrinos could help ferret out nuclear tests

    Antineutrino detectors could one day help reveal stealthy nuclear blasts.