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. Chemistry

    Three take home chemistry Nobel for harnessing protein ‘evolution’

    New ways to create customized proteins for use in biofuels and medicines earned three researchers the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

  2. Physics

    The perfect spaghetti snap starts with a twist

    A spaghetti-snapping machine helped scientists find the secret to cleanly breaking pasta in half: First, give it a twist.

  3. Tech

    Scientists enlist computers to hunt down fake news

    Who can you trust? What can you believe? Scrolling through a news feed can make it hard to decide what’s real from what’s not. Computers, however, tend to do better.

  4. Computing

    Computers can now make fool-the-eye fake videos

    Hackers can now use computers to move facial expressions (and more) from someone in one video to a person in another. The results look totally real, ushering in a whole new type of fakery.

  5. Psychology

    Are you scared of heights? Virtual reality could help

    Virtual reality may help people battle a real-world fear of heights.

  6. Space

    The Parker Solar Probe aims to touch the sun

    The Parker Solar Probe is about to make a historic voyage to the sun.

  7. Tech

    Getting road-trip ready, and no driver needed

    Most self-driving cars are city drivers. This one’s made for the open road.

  8. Computing

    Incognito browsing is not as private as most people think

    You may think you’re going deep undercover when you set your web browser to incognito. But you’d likely be mistaken, a new study finds.

  9. Tech

    Bad food? New sensors will show with a glow

    Sensors that glow around dangerous germs could be built into packaging to warn people of tainted foods.

  10. Tech

    Websites often don’t disclose who can have your data

    Privacy policies don’t reveal much about how websites share a user’s data.

  11. Materials Science

    Light could make some hospital surfaces deadly to germs

    A new surfacing material can disinfect itself. Room lighting turns on this germ-killing property, which could make the material attractive to hospitals.

  12. Science & Society

    On Twitter, fake news has greater allure than truth does

    In the Twittersphere, fake news gets more views than real stories, based on an analysis of more than 4.5 million tweets.