AYLIN WOODWARD
SCIENCE REPORTER
PUBLICATIONS BY DATE AND OUTLET
FREELANCE AND INTERNSHIP WORK
Inquiry @UC Santa Cruz Research Magazine
October 10, 2020
October 13, 2018
Life's Little Mysteries: Why Do Gnats Swarm?
October 4, 2018
Life's Little Mysteries: Will There Ever Be Another Pangea?
September 22, 2018
Life's Little Mysteries: Why Do Book Pages Turn Yellow Over Time?
September 18, 2018
Life's Little Mysteries: Why Does OJ Taste Bad After You Brush Your Teeth?
June 23, 2018
Life's Little Mysteries: Why Do Our Brains Have Folds?
May 18, 2018
Life's Little Mysteries: Why Are Sweaty-Armpit Stains So Dark?
April 4, 2018
The Most Precise Measurement of Antimatter Yet Deepens the Mystery of Why We Exist
March 30, 2018
Why the Fire that Incinerated a Tesla Was Such a Nightmare to Put Out
November 23, 2018
Grassland expansion—not human hunting—drove ancient African extinctions
May 1, 2018
NIH grant supports development of a novel drug for stroke treatment
April 26, 2018
Innovative ‘Studies in Medicine’ course will be offered online to all UC students
April 5, 2018
New 'Pan-Cancer' analysis reveals the common roots of different cancers
March 20, 2018
Marine researchers say recent sea star wasting disease epidemic defies prediction
University of Maryland
October 19, 2018
Video: Responding to an active shooter (video script)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
September 12, 2018
2018 HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows (Drs. Farmer, Q. Smith, Victor)
May 23, 2018
2018 HHMI Investigators, Edward Boyden, PhD
May 23, 2018
2018 HHMI Investigators: Zachary Knight, PhD
May 23, 2018
2018 HHMI Investigators: Beth Stevens, PhD
August 21, 2018
Portable freshwater harvester could draw up to 10 gallons per hour from the air
August 20, 2018
Strawberries could help reduce harmful inflammation in the colon
March 19, 2018
From landfill to lipstick: Grape waste as a cosmetic and food ingredient
June 28, 2018
‘Music of Speech’ Linked to Brain Area Unique to Humans
March 26, 2018
Aggressive Growth of Common Brain Tumors Linked to Single Gene
March 1, 2018
HIV Begins to Yield Secrets of How It Hides in Cells
April 24, 2018
Weird Places: The Endless Lightning at Lake Maracaibo (video script)
April 19, 2018
3 Times Scientists Did Weird Experiments With Rubber Ducks (video script)
March 26, 2018
How the Oldest Rocks on Earth Changed History (video script)
February 11, 2018
How Do Skiers Win Races? (video script)
February 15, 2018
Please Don't Post Your Hand Dryer Science Experiment on the Internet
February 12, 2018
Boston Dynamics's SpotMini Just Unveiled a New Trick
February 1, 2018
When It Comes To Natural Disasters, Technology Has An Unavoidable Dark Side
January 20, 2018
Deep Learning Could Help First Responders Offer Critical Aid in the Wake of Disasters
January 20, 2018
Microsoft’s AI Image Generator Constructs Life-Like Pictures “Pixel By Pixel”
January 20, 2018
A Tesla Semi Prototype Spotted in California is Swift, Sleek, and Silent
January 4, 2018
The World Health Organization Identifies Gaming Disorder as a Mental Health Condition
December 27, 2017
The Real Price of Bitcoin? According to Morgan Stanley, It’s Zero
December 22, 2017
Everything Is Terrible: 5 More Things to Worry About in 2018
December 15, 2017
SpaceX Just Launched A Device That Will "Change How We Interact With Space"
December 14, 2017
Net Neutrality Is Dead. Here's What the Experts Are Saying
December 9, 2017
Boeing Believes It Can Beat SpaceX to Mars
December 9, 2017
Thanks to Supersonic Flight, We May Be Able to Cross the Atlantic in Half the Time
January 10, 2018
No sweat: How can marathon runners avoid hitting ‘the wall’?
December 5, 2017
Sumatran tigers fall 17 per cent and have just two strongholds
December 1, 2017
Hummingbirds have massive hearts to power their hovering flight
November 30, 2017
Baby pterosaurs were cute, defenceless and unable to fly
November 29, 2017
A bacterium has been engineered to make 'unnatural' proteins
November 21, 2017
Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill
November 16, 2017
Weak links in US power grid vulnerable in event of a catastrophe
November 15, 2017
The exquisite marble that sculptor Michelangelo couldn't use
November 13, 2017
Climate change blamed for Arabian Sea's unexpected hurricanes
November 10, 2017
A magic number of people walking across a bridge makes it sway
November 2, 2017
There is a third species of orangutan and somehow no one noticed
October 27, 2017
How a tiny shrimp fires a savage shockwave using just its claw
October 25, 2017
La Niña forecast may mean even worse Atlantic hurricanes in 2018
October 20, 2017
Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing
October 17, 2017
How to clean up the dirty water Puerto Ricans are drinking
October 17, 2017
Roadside barrier that folds like origami blocks traffic noise
October 6, 2017
We can’t ever know whether or not our universe is a simulation
October 5, 2017
The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas
September 29, 2017
Why Puerto Rico still has no electrical power and how to fix it
September 21, 2017
There is no way to spot big earthquakes ahead of time
September 19, 2017
Tool-wielding monkeys push local shellfish to edge of extinction
September 15, 2017
Third-hand smoke in furniture and clothes damages mouse organs
September 13, 2017
The hottest place ever recorded on Earth's surface was 2370°C
September 8, 2017
Gel-like ice is the lightest form of water ever discovered
August 29, 2017
Texas may be just as vulnerable when next big hurricane hits
August 26, 2017
Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders
August 22, 2017
Wiping out a population of animals might help the species
August 17, 2017
Vitamin C helps genes to kill off cells that would cause cancer
August 17, 2017
Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar
August 16, 2017
We can program robots not to get all up in our personal space
August 15, 2017
Twitch gamers live-stream their vital signs to keep fans hooked
August 10, 2017
Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs
August 10, 2017
Sea snakes are turning black in response to industrial pollution
August 7, 2017
Overly-mothered puppies more likely to fail guide dog training
August 3, 2017
Big, armoured dinosaur still had camouflage to evade predators
August 3, 2017
Hot yoga classes reduce emotional eating and negative thoughts
August 2, 2017
How to strip 99 per cent of harmful BPA from water in 30 minutes
July 28, 2017
Flatworms can still 'see' even after they are decapitated
July 27, 2017
Tardigrade genomes help explain how they survive without water
July 27, 2017
Men's sweet tooth may increase risk of anxiety and depression
July 26, 2017
Half the atoms inside your body came from across the universe
July 24, 2017
Our brains always plan one step ahead of our bodies when we walk
July 24, 2017
Robot spots signs of melted reactor fuel at submerged Fukushima reactor
July 21, 2017
Baby salmon with 'old' DNA more likely to survive epic migration
July 21, 2017
Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don't know why
July 20, 2017
Bitcoin study reveals how early adopters influence our decisions
July 19, 2017
See the 'tuskers' hunting wooly mammoths in Siberian permafrost
July 17, 2017
Why fast birds, animals and fish are never too small or big
July 12, 2017
Hairs use chemical signals to tell each other when to grow
July 11, 2017
Online harassment is on the rise - but no one can agree what it is
July 7, 2017
Even toddlers expect bullies to get more than their fair share
July 4, 2017
We may have mated with Neanderthals more than 219,000 years ago
June 28, 2017
Birds play sick jungle beat with drumsticks they make themselves
May 10, 2017
Waves surge in opposite directions around Io's largest lava lake
March 10, 2017
Your brain fills gaps in your hearing without you realising
*Up Front and In Brief articles:
November 29, 2017
Cuts likely for one of NASA's next big space-based telescopes
November 22, 2017
Private mission may get us back to Enceladus sooner than NASA
October 18, 2017
US Affordable Care Act dealt two blows by President Trump
July 18, 2017
Tanzanian volcano blast could destroy ancient hominin footprints
July 13, 2017
Tiny laser inside your body could detect cancer, then dissolve
January 29, 2017
Tiny Heart Repairs (Stanford Medicine magazine)
October 17, 2017
Newborns with trisomy 13 or 18 benefit from heart surgery
September 2, 2017
August 28, 2017
Filling in the gaps (plus podcast)
June 20, 2017
"Change from Within" Highlights Diversity Efforts at UCSC (with Sarah McQuate)
*Also shared by UCSC Press Office
June 14, 2017
Profile: Alison Galloway, Speaker for the Dead
May 1, 2017
With a little help from my friends
June 7, 2017
Big Sur's lonely redwoods are key to saving the species threatened by climate change
April 5, 2017
Video: Cannabis delivery: A chat with Eaze CEO Jim Patterson (with Tor Haugan and Karl Mondon)
March 28, 2017
Meet Alison Galloway, preeminent forensic anthropologist (Bay Area Women's History Month series)
March 17, 2017
Roller derby at a crossroads: Bye-bye fish nets, hello ESPN
Associated video: "Roller Derby at a crossroads" (with Tor Haugan and Josie Lepe)
March 16, 2017
Study: Marijuana use increases risks of stroke, heart failure (with Sukee Bennett)
March 3, 2017
Trump's planned EPA cuts: Zero dollars for San Francisco Bay
March 1, 2017
California drought: snowpack is almost double normal level (with Sukee Bennett)
February 25, 2017
NASA, Palo Alto satellite company team up to explore unique asteroid
February 24, 2017
Mom saves son's life on Watsonville soccer field
February 9, 2017
Highway 17 mudslide likely to keep roadway closed until Monday (with Sukee Bennett)
January 27, 2017
Art Rosenfeld, California's godfather of energy efficiency, dies
January 20, 2017
Two kinds of exhilaration at Trump inauguration (with Lisa Kreiger)
January 17, 2017
Obamacare repeal: Is there room for bipartisan compromise? (with Tracy Seipel)
November 4, 2016
Monterey Bay Aquarium digs in for battle of the bags
February 18, 2017
How to protect Europa from Earthlings (AAAS Meeting)
February 6, 2017
For calmer chickens, bathe eggs in light
Scientific American Guest Blog
January 5, 2017
The science of barefoot running: A personal journey
EOS: Earth and Space Science News
January 4, 2017
Pinpointing the trigger behind Yellowstone's latest supereruption
December 29, 2016
Science spotlight: Offshore faults
American Geophysical Union Blogosphere: Geospace
December 27, 2016
Random temperature fluctuations may have made Earth habitable
December 14, 2016
Lake sediments may be key to predicting melting sea ice in Canadian Arctic
National Association of Science Writers
October 31, 2016
NASW business and membership meeting
November 23, 2016
Female chimpanzees wait for their turn at the top of the social pecking order
November 4, 2016
Monterey Bay Aquarium digs in for battle of the bags
February 25, 2017
Mission to metal: team targets unique asteroid
November 4, 2016
Monterey Bay Aquarium not shy to share its opinion on several election measures
December 10, 2016
Salinas Valley students study South Pole
November 15, 2016
Commercial fishermen see a glass half-empty
November 9, 2016
Recreational pot wins in state balloting
November 7, 2016
Aquarium on board with Prop. 67
October 29, 2016
Marijuana on the ballot: Measures L, Y
October 29, 2016
October 26, 2016
District 1: Juan Sandoval, from recall to running for office
October 22, 2016
District 1: Scott Davis, a millennial with a vision
October 20, 2016
Salinas electric vehicle summit on Oct. 24
October 20, 2016
Salinas shooting reported but no victim found
October 16, 2016
Lower annual pesticide limit announced
October 6, 2016
Soberanes Fire containment increases
September 29, 2016
Persisting Loma fire may affect air quality
The Salinas Californian (weekly agricultural digest)
December 7, 2016
Salinas featured in PBS NewsHour segment
State’s tomato processing moves north
November 30, 2016
Watsonville native named environmental 'Leader of the Future'
Castroville wetland restored to provide clean surface water
November 23, 2016
California Farm Bureau Federation to honor Martin
November 16, 2016
Thousands of Monterey County third-graders enjoy Farm Day
Rainfall year is off to a wet start, but some areas remain in drought
November 9, 2016
UC Davis center awarded $10M for continuing ag research
Group of labs protects state livestock from disease
November 2, 2016
Farm Bureau calls on everyone to get out and vote this election
Students at UC Santa Cruz win $275,000 federal grant
October 26, 2016
Six ag start-ups will compete for funds at meeting in Hawaii
Fire management course takes place for mostly women
Study: California ranks as 15th most energy-efficient state
October 19, 2016
Brussels sprouts in high demand
Local grower harvests solar energy, cuts on emissions
October 12, 2016
Western Growers oppose Prop 55
October 5, 2016
September 28, 2016
Look for low-flying helicopter in south San Joaquin Valley
Valley reminded of groundwater sustainability deadlines
Jan.|Feb. Issue
Campus Notebook: Special Delivery
Nov.|Dec. 2016 Issue
February 2014 - June 2015
Opinion-Editorial Columnist: Musings on everything from higher education to Turkish politics
ON STAFF
The Wall Street Journal
December 7, 2021- present
Landing page for all my WSJ work, including text, graphics, video, podcast and Future of Everything stories
*The following is an older selection of stories from prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. For a full list of my 2021 and 2020 Business Insider/Insider stories, please see the following link.
December 26, 2019
December 24, 2019
December 22, 2019
December 20, 2019
What each Democrat running for president thinks the US should do about climate change
December 18, 2019
New York City just got hit by a 'snow squall.' Here's what that really means — and looks like
December 18, 2019
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Greta Thunberg's Twitter bio is trolling Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who called her a 'brat'
December 10, 2019
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November 3, 2019
Coin flips aren't actually random. An app called Universe Splitter is, though — here's how it works
November 2, 2019
Daylight-saving time is about to end. It's one of the world's stupidest rituals (with Dave Mosher)
November 1, 2019
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October 31, 2019
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October 22, 2019
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October 17, 2019
October 17, 2019
What Earth might look like in 80 years if we're lucky — and if we're not (with Dave Mosher)
October 15, 2019
October 15, 2019
October 11, 2019
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October 8, 2019
October 7, 2019
October 6, 2019
The Titanic is slowly but surely disappearing — here's what the wreck looks like now
October 4, 2019
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October 1, 2019
September 28, 2019
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September 26, 2019
Melting ice is slowing down the Atlantic ocean's circulation system. Yes, that's similar to what happens in 'The Day After Tomorrow'
September 25, 2019
September 25, 2019
September 24, 2019
How 16-year-old Greta Thunberg became the face of climate-change activism (with Ivan DeLuce)
September 23, 2019
Greta Thunberg addressed world leaders through tears: 'How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words'
September 23, 2019
September 23, 2019
September 20, 2019
A tropical storm is flooding Texas with up to 43 inches of rain, just 2 weeks after Hurricane Dorian. Here's why storms are getting stronger, slower, and wetter (with Morgan McFall-Johnsen)
September 19, 2019
North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds in the last 50 years — another sign that we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
September 18, 2019
September 17, 2019
A lost 8th continent is hidden nearly 1,000 miles under Europe, new research shows. Scientists named it 'Greater Adria'
September 16, 2019
A 10-year-old Texas girl has been killed by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in the Brazos river
September 14, 2019
For millions of years, eastern Australia was home to 2,200-pound marsupials with giant claws
September 14, 2019
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September 6, 2019
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September 2, 2019
Hurricane Dorian is stationary over the Bahamas, giving it more time to wreak havoc. Slower storms could be our new normal (with Morgan McFall-Johnsen and Rosie Perper)
August 29, 2019
August 29, 2019
August 29, 2019
Hurricane Dorian could hit Florida as a Category 4 storm. Here are the 14 most important ways to prepare for a hurricane (with Peter Kotecki and Morgan McFall-Johnsen)
August 28, 2019
August 27, 2019
Trump suggested using bombs to fight hurricanes. These 4 graphics show why that would never work (with Yutong Yuan and Skye Gould)
August 27, 2019
The world's first gene-edited reptile is a finger-sized albino lizard
August 26, 2019
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August 23, 2019
Striking photos show the devastation wreaked by record-breaking fires in the Amazon rainforest (with Joey Hadden)
August 22, 2019
August 22, 2019
Amazon fires created a smoke eclipse in the skies above Brazil's largest city, 2,000 miles away
August 21, 2019
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August 13, 2019
'The saddest dive of my life': A diver's before-and-after photos reveal the death of a coral reef
August 11, 2019
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For the first time in history, a spacecraft is being powered purely by sunlight
July 24, 2019
July 23, 2019
The first 'solar sailing' spacecraft is about to unfurl in orbit. It will be powered purely by light
July 22, 2019
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An astronaut captured an image of Tropical Storm Barry from space as it bears down on Louisiana
July 10, 2019
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Vintage EPA photos reveal what US waterways looked like before pollution was regulated
June 30, 2019
A parasitic infection called 'crypto' that causes diarrhea is on the rise in US swimming pools
June 30, 2019
Papayas contaminated with salmonella bacteria have sickened 62 people in 8 states
June 30, 2019
Temperatures in California are so hot, mussels are being cooked inside their shells
June 28, 2019
Astronauts in space photographed a giant volcano erupting in the Pacific Ocean
June 28, 2019
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18 signs we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
June 13, 2019
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June 10, 2019
What it's really like to climb Everest, according to 10 people who've done it
June 7, 2019
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May 30, 2019
Crowds, costs, and corpses: 16 misconceptions about what it's like to climb Everest
May 30, 2019
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T. rexes and other dinosaur skeletons look almost alive in a new set of remarkable photos
May 23, 2019
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Your seasonal allergies are getting worse because of high levels of carbon dioxide — here's why
May 21, 2019
May 18, 2019
California is having an unprecedented earthquake drought. The next big one could come at any moment
May 17, 2019
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May 4, 2019
The best underwater photos of the year reveal shipwrecks, sharks, and terrifying deep-sea creatures
May 14, 2019
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Scientists have discovered the oldest human footprint ever seen in the Americas
April 25, 2019
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23 images that show how much we've reshaped planet Earth over the last century (with Erin Brodwin)
April 22, 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is moving too fast for experts to keep up. Now scientists might know why
April 22, 2019
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April 18, 2019
Chilling photos of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fires set the city ablaze
April 18, 2019
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April 15, 2019
Israeli scientists’ attempt at the first private moon landing failed because of a glitch that caused a high-speed crash into the lunar surface (with Dave Mosher)
April 11, 2019
Oil-eating microbes found in the deepest part of the ocean could help clean up man-made oil spill
April 10, 2019
April 8, 2019
Insects are dying off at record rates — an ominous sign we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction
April 8, 2019
So many animals are going extinct that it could take Earth 10 million years to recover
April 8, 2019
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Paleontologists have discovered an ancient whale that had four legs and could walk on land
April 3, 2019
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12 facts that show why bottled water is one of the biggest scams of the century (with Erin Brodwin)
March 15, 2019
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March 7, 2019
Humans once hunted and butchered giant ground sloths in South America, 12,600-year-old bones reveal
March 7, 2019
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Divers found fossils of an ancient giant sloth hidden in a sinkhole. The creature was 20 feet long.
March 1, 2019
February 28, 2019
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Meet the first species to go extinct because of climate change — it was tiny, cute, and fluffy
February 20, 2019
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Earth's north magnetic pole has moved — here's what that means for our navigation systems
February 5, 2019
Brazil's new president has started taking steps towards damaging the 'lungs of the planet'
February 4, 2019
February 2, 2019
A tiny dinosaur relative named the 'Antarctic King' has been discovered at the South Pole
February 1, 2019
January 31, 2019
January 30, 2019
The Midwest is colder than Antarctica thanks to the polar vortex — here's what it looks like
January 30, 2019
How long you can stay outside in extreme cold before getting frostbite (with Jeremy Berke)
January 26, 2019
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January 17, 2019
Before-and-after images reveal the transformation of Indonesia's tsunami-causing volcano
January 16, 2019
January 10, 2019
A city in China hosts an elaborate winter festival with giant ice castles, mass weddings, and a frigid swimming contest — take a look
January 9, 2019
A fatberg longer than the Leaning Tower of Pisa clogs another UK sewer
January 9, 2019