Fechi Inyama

Fechi Inyama is the 2026 AAAS Mass Media Fellow with Science News. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in microbiology at MIT, where she is studying the evolution of microbial metabolisms throughout Earth history. Her writing has appeared in the MIT Science Policy Review, Sequencer Magazine and Reviewer, Too, among other publications.

All Stories by Fechi Inyama

  1. Plants

    Giant trees have tricks to work around drought

    Samples collected at daring heights provide evidence for an untested theory of tree drought adaptation, while countering another.

  2. Planetary Science

    A Mars rover found organic carbon just sitting on a rock

    The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

  3. Health & Medicine

    The New World screwworm has returned to the U.S. Now what?

    At least a dozen animals have been found with the flesh-eating maggots. It could take more than a year to eradicate the parasite again, experts warn.