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Carl Zimmer’s Biography

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Carl Zimmer is the author of thirteen books about science. His next book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. It will be published in March 2021 and is available now to pre-order (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.)

Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times. His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution. His most recent book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, won the 2019 National…

Carl Zimmer’s Journalist Portfolio

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First, a Vaccine Approval. Then 'Chaos and Confusion.'

First, a Vaccine Approval. Then 'Chaos and Confusion.'

Come spring, Americans may have their choice of several so-so coronavirus vaccines - with no way of knowing w…

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The Coronavirus Unveiled

The Coronavirus Unveiled

In February, as the new coronavirus swept across China and shut down entire cities, a scientist named Sai Li …

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The Lost History of One of the World's Strangest Science Experiments

The Lost History of One of the World's Strangest Science Experiments

The hummingbirds were dying. Cockroaches were everywhere. And then Steve Bannon showed up.

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The Girl Who Turned to Bone

The Girl Who Turned to Bone

When Jeannie Peeper was born in 1958, there was only one thing amiss: her big toes were short and crooked. Do…

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How Scientists Stalked a Lethal Superbug-With the Killer's Own DNA | Wired Science | Wired.com

How Scientists Stalked a Lethal Superbug-With the Killer's Own DNA | Wired Science | Wired.com

A lethal bacterium was running rampant at an NIH hospital. Antibiotics were useless. Then two scientists bega…

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New York: Empire of Evolution

New York: Empire of Evolution

The animals, plants, and microbes of New York City are all evolving.

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Articles

This cell feeds, grows and reproduces. and it’s made by humans

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By Carl Zimmer Verified, Marco Hernandez Verified
| Texarkana Gazette Verified
Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. This month, a team at the University of Minnesota announced that it had taken a major step toward that vision. Blending together dozens of ingredients, the researchers have synthesized simple cells that feed, grow, reproduce and compete with one another for food. If these cells are not yet fully alive, they have most of the hallmarks of life.
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This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It's Made by Humans.

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By Carl Zimmer Verified, Marco Hernandez Verified
| Breaking One
(Science Times) Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. This month, a team at the University of Minnesota announced that it had taken a major step toward that vision. Blending together dozens of ingredients, the researchers have synthesized simple cells that feed, grow, reproduce and compete with one another for food. If these cells are not yet fully alive, they have most of the hallmarks of life.
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Buildings may soon have ‘immune systems’ that fight airborne disease

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By Carl Zimmer Verified
| The Star (Malaysia) Verified
WASHINGTON: Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer, stood next to a pair of clear plastic boxes packed with tubes, nozzles and electronics, an odd-looking prototype that one day might serve to protect children in daycare from airborne viruses. A nozzle filled the right-hand box with a faint silvery mist. A pump pulled some of that air into the left-hand box, where a sampler trapped floating particles and droplets.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Summer intern at the Hunterdon County Democrat

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I actually owned a manual typewriter as a kid.

How is social media changing news?

The audience is no longer silent. News has become a conversation.

Awards

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National Academies Communication Award

2019 - Book

She Has Her Mother's Laugh

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Online Journalism Award

2017 - Explanatory Journalism

For the series, "Game of Genomes," published in Stat.

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AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award

2012 - Large newspapers
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AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award

2009 - Large newspapers
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National Academies Communication Award

2007 - Newspaper/Magazine/Internet

Awarded by the National Academies of Science

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AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award

2004 - Online Journalism
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Stephen Jay Gould Prize

2016 - Science writing

The Stephen Jay Gould Prize is awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to recognize individuals whose sustained and exemplary efforts have advanced public understanding of evolutionary science and its importance in biology, education, and everyday life.

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