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. 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.