Sofia Caetano Avritzer
AAAS Mass Media Fellow
Sofia Caetano Avritzer is the 2025 AAAS Mass Media Fellow with Science News. She has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from The Rockefeller University, where she studied how fruit flies move their eyes and navigate the world.

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- Paleontology
Zombifying fungi have been infecting insects for 99 million years
Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.