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

    Dark matter still remains elusive

    Scientists continue the search for particles that make up the universe’s missing matter.

  2. Quantum Physics

    Minuscule jitters may hint at quantum collapse mechanism

    Vibrations of a tiny cantilever could help reveal why quantum rules fail on large scales.

  3. Physics

    Molecules face the big chill

    Scientists have cooled molecules below a previously impassable limit.

  4. Astronomy

    Rumors swirl that LIGO snagged gravitational waves from a neutron star collision

    Telescopes seem to be following up on a potential gravitational wave sighting.

  5. Cosmology

    Map reveals the invisible universe of dark matter

    The Dark Energy Survey reports a new tally of the dark universe.

  6. Astronomy

    We share the Milky Way with 100 million black holes

    New census calculates black hole populations in galaxies big and small.

  7. Particle Physics

    Normally aloof particles of light seen ricocheting off each other

    Scientists spot evidence of photons interacting at the Large Hadron Collider.

  8. Particle Physics

    Neutrino experiment may hint at why matter rules the universe

    T2K experiment hints at an explanation for what happened to antimatter.

  9. Animals

    How spiders mastered spin control

    Scientists reveal a new twist on the unusual properties of spider silk.

  10. Particle Physics

    Neutrinos seen scattering off an atom’s nucleus for the first time

    New type of interaction confirms that neutrinos play by the rules.

  11. Physics

    Virgo detector joins LIGO in the search for gravitational waves

    The Virgo detector near Pisa, Italy, has begun searching for subtle ripples in the fabric of spacetime.

  12. Materials Science

    Diamond joins the realm of 2-D thin films, study suggests

    Scientists squeezed graphene sheets into diamondene.