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Aaron Tremper

Assistant Editor at Science News Explores

Aaron Tremper is the assistant editor for Science News Explores. He has a B.A. in English (with minors in creative writing and film production) from SUNY New Paltz and an M.A. in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’s Science and Health Reporting program. A former intern at Audubon magazine and Atlanta’s NPR station, WABE 90.1 FM, he has reported a wide range of science stories for radio, print, and digital media. His favorite reporting adventure? Tagging along with researchers studying bottlenose dolphins off of New York City and Long Island, NY.

Aaron also writes for Science News.  See his Science News articles here.

All Stories by Aaron Tremper

  1. Materials Science

    This engineer uses light to get hearts pumping

     Pengju Li designed a new type of pacemaker to help doctors during open-heart surgery.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Dad’s backyard lessons inspired this hearing scientist to learn

     A. Catalina Vélez-Ortega researches how proteins can protect against hearing loss.

  3. Animals

    What is a dinosaur?

    Scientists have named more than 1,000 species of nonavian dinosaurs. Their legacy lives on in the 11,000-plus bird species alive today.

  4. Animals

    Dinosaurs are still alive. Today, we call them birds

    Birds don’t look like the scaly giants of Jurassic World. But fossils are revealing how these modern-day dinosaurs descended from ancient reptiles.

  5. Fossils

    This paleontologist solved a nearly 50-year-old dino mystery 

    ReBecca Hunt-Foster described what is now the state dinosaur of Arkansas 

  6. Math

    His love of math led to a career in quantum computing

    James Whitfield began his career when quantum computing was still in its infancy. Today, he’s helping to make it more accessible to educators, researchers and others.

  7. Tech

    Move over Iron Man, exoskeletons are getting real 

    Real-world wearable devices help people stay safe at work and accomplish everyday tasks.

  8. Plants

    Plant and fungi parts help robots level up

    Fusing machines with plants and fungi isn’t just sci-fi. A new generation of biohybrid devices could someday help in agriculture or energy production.

  9. Animals

    To clear loops, Sonic the Hedgehog must hit the right speed

     Most animals don’t run through loops. Sonic would need the physics behind roller coasters and race cars to clear one.

  10. Animals

    Magic helped this researcher trick birds for research 

    At the National University of Singapore, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin looks at how magic can help us understand animal intelligence.

  11. Space

    Spacecraft need an extra boost to travel between stars 

    Star Wars makes space travel look easy by breaking the laws of physics. Off-screen, the technology for spacecraft to reach other worlds doesn’t exist yet.

  12. Animals

    This biologist tracks seadragons, with help from the public

    Nerida Wilson uses artificial intelligence to identify seadragons in photos taken by citizen scientists.