Jennifer Nalewicki
Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics and more. She covers several science topics from planet Earth to paleontology and archaeology to health and culture. Prior to freelancing, Jennifer was a reporter at Interior Design Magazine, and before that she held an Editor role at Time Inc. Jennifer has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin.
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On March 28, Earth was hit by an X-class solar flare that was strong enough to ionize part of the planet's atmosphere.

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China's new jumbo-size, reusable rockets are part of the country's plans to send humans to the moon by 2030.

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Spiral petroglyphs carved into a canyon wall on the Colorado-Utah border may have been used as a calendar by the Ancestral Pueblo.

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The more than 3,000-year-old site along a riverbank in Serbia contains the footprints of dozens of Bronze Age structures.

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Forecasters are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Lee, which they predict could soon become a full-blown hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.

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A Bronze Age arrowhead found in Switzerland was made using meteoric iron.

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Researchers have developed a liquid-nitrogen spray that rids spacesuits of lunar dust.

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250 million-year-old pollen suggests radiation played a role in mass extinction event.

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An international group of experts has voted to retire the leap second by 2035.
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