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. Science & Society

    Scientists-turned-students guide viewers through ‘The Most Unknown’

    In The Most Unknown, a film on Netflix, a research round robin leads to fascinating discussions about scientific questions.

  2. Astronomy

    A faint glow found between galaxies could be a beacon for dark matter

    Intracluster light may help reveal where dark matter resides within galaxy clusters.

  3. Astronomy

    Hopes dim that gamma rays can reveal dark matter

    A mysterious glow of gamma rays coming from the center of the Milky Way probably isn’t a sign of dark matter.

  4. Physics

    Strange metals are even weirder than scientists thought

    Some strange metals are odd in more ways than one, and that could help scientists understand high-temperature superconductors.

  5. Particle Physics

    In a first, physicists accelerate atoms in the Large Hadron Collider

    Ionized lead atoms took a spin around the world’s biggest particle accelerator.

  6. Physics

    A star orbiting a black hole shows Einstein got gravity right — again

    For the first time, general relativity has been confirmed in the region near a supermassive black hole.

  7. Physics

    The Planck satellite’s picture of the infant universe gets its last tweaks

    Scientists have released the last big result from the cosmic microwave background experiment Planck.

  8. Particle Physics

    One particle’s trek suggests that ‘spacetime foam’ doesn’t slow neutrinos

    Neutrinos and light travel at essentially the same speed, as predicted.

  9. Particle Physics

    A high-energy neutrino has been traced to its galactic birthplace

    The high-energy particle was born in a blazar 4 billion light-years away, scientists report.

  10. Quantum Physics

    Mini machines can evade friction by taking quantum shortcuts

    Special maneuvers allow researchers to create tiny machines that are as efficient as possible.

  11. Quantum Physics

    A tiny version of this physics toy is revealing quantum secrets

    Scientists created a quantum Newton’s cradle to study thermal equilibrium.

  12. Astronomy

    ‘Oumuamua may be a comet, not an asteroid

    The solar system’s first known interstellar visitor doesn’t appear to be the asteroid that scientists thought it was.