Erin Garcia de Jesús

Staff Writer

Erin Garcia de Jesús is a staff writer at Science News. She holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Washington, where she studied virus/host co-evolution. After deciding science as a whole was too fascinating to spend a career studying one topic, she went on to earn a master’s in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writing has appeared in Nature News, Science, Eos, Smithsonian Voices and more, and she was the winter 2019 science writing intern at Science News.

All Stories by Erin Garcia de Jesús

  1. Animals

    A new book finds parenting inspiration in the animal kingdom

    In The Creatures’ Guide to Caring, science journalist Elizabeth Preston looks to the animal kingdom to explore what it means to be a good parent.

  2. Animals

    Secrets of the Bees zooms in on life in a hive

    A new documentary available on Disney+ and Hulu appeals to our sense of wonder to highlight why bees need saving.

  3. Health & Medicine

    Start cholesterol tests in childhood, new guidelines say

    The idea is to control bad cholesterol early in life. Additional tests are also recommended to provide a clearer picture of risk.

  4. Microbes

    How warming is shifting microbial worlds

    Climate change is affecting microbes, and that has implications for all life on Earth.

  5. Animals

    Submerged bumblebee queens breathe underwater

    Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the bees survive floods.

  6. Animals

    Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration

    Suitable milkweed habitat in Mexico may shift south, fracturing existing migration routes and possibly pushing some butterflies to stay put.

  7. Life

    An African monkey ate a rope squirrel and came down with mpox

    Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty mangabeys in Côte d’Ivoire.

  8. Ecosystems

    Food chains in Caribbean coral reefs are getting shorter

    Shorter food chains could mean reefs are less able to weather changes in food availability, threatening an already vulnerable ecosystem.

  9. Animals

    Some vaccines are making progress in protecting vulnerable species

    Vaccines can be a crucial conservation tool. But getting shots to wildlife, and developing them in the first place, is tough.

  10. Animals

    This tool-using cow defies expectations for bovine braininess

    Veronika the cow uses a brush as a tool to scratch herself, revealing rare problem-solving skills and expanding what we know of tool use in animals.

  11. Earth

    Some of 2025’s scientific discoveries broke records

    Longest lightning, the first AI-generated genomes and biggest black hole smashup were among this year’s top science superlatives.

  12. Health & Medicine

    Canada just lost its measles elimination status. Is the U.S. next?

    Canada has had more than a year of continuous measles transmission. The United States has until January to limit cases before losing status.