Kara joined the Office of News and Communications at Duke University in 2016 after serving as a Science Communication Intern at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She was a 2014 AAAS Mass Media Fellow and a founding organizer of ComSciCon, a series of communication workshops for graduate students in STEM. Kara earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT in 2015 and is a member of the National Association of Science Writers.
Wearable skin sensors that detect what’s in your sweat could one day replace invasive procedures like blood draws and provide real-time updates on dehydration, fatigue, and other health p...
Researchers designed the game to explore how various weapons capabilities, such as low-yield, high precision nuclear weapons, may affect the behavior of different actors in an escalating ...
A single kind of neuron deep within the brain serves as a “master controller” of habits, new research in mice indicates.
A team of researchers has developed a microscope powerful enough to see a virus in the act of infecting a cell.
Scientists can now watch how hundreds of individual cells work together to maintain and regenerate skin tissue, thanks to a genetically engineered line of technicolor zebrafish.
