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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

    What to know about using AI chatbots for therapy

    More and more young people are turning to AI chatbots for mental health help. There can be risks, and it’s important to know what they are, experts say.

  2. Animals

    King cobras may be riding trains across India [COMIC]

    The snakes may be tempted onboard by tasty rodents — but train rides can carry cobras far from their forest habitats.

  3. Physics

    Trying to break a photon would create a quantum mess

    Attempting to cut a light particle in half would spawn up to infinite new photons, a new model shows.

  4. Ecosystems

    Let’s learn about wetlands

    Just how wet these lands are varies a lot — from seasonally soaked to permanently flooded.

  5. Artificial Intelligence

    A new shield could guard AI agents against cyberattacks

    A teen’s software could help guard AI that handles sensitive data against sneaky “prompt injection attacks.”

  6. Space

    Do multiple universes exist?

    Some branches of physics hint that our universe is just one of many in a vast “multiverse.”

  7. Humans

    Let’s learn about adrenaline

    In short bursts, this hormone can help you face your fears. But in the long run, too much of it can be unhealthy.

  8. Environment

    Teen engineer finds eco-friendly way to fight harmful algal blooms

    The Netflix series Outer Banks inspired this teen engineer to help clean up algal blooms in a local waterway.

  9. Space

    Check out some of the best pics from the Artemis II mission

    The Artemis astronauts are safely back on Earth. But they immortalized their historic voyage to the moon in these stunning photographs.

  10. Animals

    Let’s learn about the platypus

    Every new discovery about platypuses reveals them to be even odder than we thought.

  11. Space

    Supermassive black holes might trace back to huge, ancient stars

    Hefty stars might have collapsed into “intermediate mass” black holes — the building blocks of supermassive ones, a teen’s research suggests.

  12. Planets

    Let’s learn about Venus

    Venus’ surface is hot enough to melt lead, studded with volcanoes and shrouded in clouds of corrosive acid.