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Maria Temming

Assistant Managing Editor, Science News Explores

Maria Temming is the Assistant Managing Editor at Science News Explores. Maria has undergraduate degrees in physics and English from Elon University and a master's degree in science writing from MIT. She has written for Scientific American, Sky & Telescope and NOVA Next. She’s also a former staff writer at Science News.

All Stories by Maria Temming

  1. Health & Medicine

    A new cell model could help kids and teens with arthritis

    This model was built by a teenager with juvenile idiopathic arthritis — a poorly understood chronic illness.

  2. Animals

    Let’s learn about animals that can regrow body parts

    Animals that regenerate limbs, eyes and other body parts may hold clues to superhuman healing.

  3. Physics

    Let’s learn how to make a sports ball soar

    A ball’s shape and spin both affect how it flies through the air.

  4. Physics

    Precise tee placement can improve golf driving, teen finds

    A homemade golf-ball-driving machine helped this middle-school engineer improve his own game.

  5. Fossils

    Let’s learn about Tyrannosaurus rex

    These fearsome predators truly were enormous — with the bone-crushing bite power to match.

  6. Health & Medicine

    Butt breathing might help people struggling to get enough oxygen

    This strange investigation into whether humans can use the gut for breathing has surprisingly heartwarming origins: helping the scientist’s dad.

  7. Microbes

    Let’s learn about viruses

    Viruses cause a huge range of illnesses, but vaccines can help protect you against these infections.

  8. Fossils

    Here’s why ammolite gems have a rainbow shimmer

    The fossils’ fabulous colors arise from delicate assemblies of crystal plates.

  9. Life

    Let’s learn about life forms that have survived in space

    Moss spores, bacteria and tardigrades have all proved their hardiness outside the International Space Station.

  10. Brain

    Hypnosis isn’t magic. It’s the brain at work

    While we still don’t know much about how hypnosis works, it appears to help some people conquer pain, anxiety and other problems.

  11. Tech

    Origami folds let paper support 9,000 times its weight, teen finds

    Miles Wu, 14, tested the strength of different ‘Miura-Ori’ origami folds and showed they might be useful in the design of pop-up emergency shelters.

  12. Physics

    Here’s how to levitate something without magic

    Levitation may seem like fantasy. But all it takes is a little physics — and sound waves, magnetism or electricity.