Published Articles
Rebecca’s reporting has appeared in Scientific American, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Quanta, Smithsonian Air & Space, Parade, Nature, Science, Distillations, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic, Aeon, Ars Technica, Discover, Hakai, New Scientist, and many other publications. She has been a guest on Vox’s Unexplainable podcast, Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal, KERA talk show Think, and St. Louis Public Radio, among other broadcast media. Rebecca holds a degree in history from Colorado State University.
FEATURED ARTICLES
Scientific American
Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy
Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it.
New York Times
50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon
The lunar rovers of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parked American automotive culture on the lunar surface, and expanded the scientific range of the missions’ astronaut explorers.
The Atlantic
The Dark Side of Light
Beneath the surface of one of Germany’s deepest lakes, researchers are studying the hidden effects of artificial light.
Quanta
Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds
Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been exaggerated. But astronomers still have much to learn from distant galaxies glimpsed by Webb.
Scientific American
National Geographic
The New Yorker
Aeon
Atlas Obscura
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