Susan Gaidos

Contributing Correspondent

Susan Gaidos has been writing about discoveries in areas ranging from biology and neuroscience to physics and technology for more than three decades. Her features, profiles and news stories have appeared in New Scientist, theDallas Morning News, The Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, and Science Careers. She also writes articles on science-related topics for children and is a contributor to Science World and Science News for Kids. She has degrees in journalism and biology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and undertook post-graduate studies in biology at Purdue University while working as a university public information officer. She has received gold and silver awards in medicine and science writing from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and received the National Institutes of Health's Plain Language Award in 2009 for contributions to the NIGMS publication Computing Life.

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All Stories by Susan Gaidos

  1. When Humor Humiliates

    For gelotophobes, even good-natured laughter can sound a lot like ridicule.

  2. Ecosystems

    Living Physics

    From green leaves to bird brains, biological systems may exploit quantum phenomena.

  3. Space

    Cosmic mystery

    High-energy invaders from space could signal a nearby pulsar, or perhaps dark matter.

  4. Microbes

    Team spirit

    Working together, bacteria and other microbes can accomplish much more than they can alone. Now scientists hope to harness that ability by engineering their own microbial consortia.

  5. Life

    Sting Operation

    Scientists use bees and wasps to sniff out the illicit and the dangerous.

  6. Health & Medicine

    Thanks for the future memories

    To the brain, remembering the past and visualizing the future look surprisingly similar.

  7. Space

    Slip-sliding away

    The surface of one of Jupiter’s moons shifts position.

  8. Health & Medicine

    The Colorful World of Synesthesia

    Science News for Kids explores the sensory explosion that defines the experience of people with this unusual, but not that uncommon nor unwelcome, condition.

  9. Physics

    Supercool, and Strange

    Scientists tracking H2O's highs and lows are finding new clues as to how and why the familiar substance is so odd. Recent research, for example, suggests that water may exist in two distinct liquid phases at ultralow temperatures.