Aaron Tremper

Editorial Assistant at Science News Explores

Aaron Tremper is the editorial assistant 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. Health & Medicine

    What are vitamins?

    Humans need 13 different vitamins to stay healthy. Most come from the food we eat. Others are made in our bodies.

  2. Animals

    A shark encounter inspired this researcher’s career in marine biology

    Heidy Martinez never wanted to study sharks as a kid. That changed after encountering a white shark in South Africa.

  3. Humans

    A real-life vampire probably couldn’t survive on blood alone

    Vampires often have human bodies. To survive on blood, they’d need to shed millions of years of evolution. 

  4. Space

    This astronomer searches for alien chemistry and tech 

    At the SETI Institute, Chenoa Tremblay uses radio telescopes to look for molecules and emissions given off by alien technology.

  5. Planets

    Here’s how future Martians might take their first breaths 

    Mars would need an atmosphere thick enough to hold heat and with enough oxygen for people to breathe. This is how we might terraform Mars.

  6. Animals

    Loss inspired this biologist to study aging

    Juan Manuel Vazquez studies the anti-aging genes that have allowed some animals to evolve to live remarkably long lives.

  7. Artificial Intelligence

    This researcher investigates the risks of digitally cloning the dead  

    Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska investigates the risk of AI-driven grief bots — while commuting between Poland and England.

  8. 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.

  9. Health & Medicine

    Dad’s backyard lessons inspired this hearing scientist to learn

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

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Fossils

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

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