About Scienceline

Scienceline is a student-run webzine published by the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. For more information, e-mail us. See below for our corrections and comments policies.

Scienceline Staff

Editor in Chief
Katie Peek

Managing Editors
Mara Grunbaum, Olivia Koski

Section Editors
Environment: Alyson Kenward, Mike Orcutt
Life Science: Zach Gottlieb, Valerie Ross
Health: Michael Glenn Easter, Genevra Pittman
Physical Science: Ariel Bleicher, Alex Liu

Blog Editors
Ferris Jabr, Anna Rothschild

Multimedia Editor
Emily Elert

Copy Editors
Ariel Bleicher, Emily Elert, Mara Grunbaum, Alex Liu, Genevra Pittman, Valerie Ross

Contributors
Andrea Anderson, Molika Ashford, Lindsey Bewley, Allison Bond, Sabina Borza, Rachele Cooper, Susan Cosier, Ciara Curtin, Amanda DeMatto, Emily V. Driscoll, Shelley Dubois, Kristina Fiore, Joanna Foster, Stuart Fox, Crystal Gammon, Robert Goodier, Andrew Grant, Bob Grant, Adam T. Hadhazy, Karina Hamalainen, Monica Heger, Jeremy Hsu, Christopher Intagliata, Brett Israel, Jessie Jiang, Frederik Joelving, Andrew Klein, Meredith Knight, Lindsey Konkel, Ben Leach, Julie Leibach, Dave Levitan, Susannah F. Locke, Rachel Mahan, Melissa Mahony, Jennifer Moser, Eric R. Olson, Erik Ortlip, Morgen E. Peck, Lynne Peeples, Natalie Peretsman, Kristin Elise Phillips, Rachael Rettner, Cassie Rodenberg, Josh Romero, Karen Schrock, Peter Sergo, Alison Snyder, Greg Soltis, Victoria Stern, Carina Storrs, Andrea Thompson, Katherine Tweed, Molly Webster, Melinda Wenner, Erica Westly, Edyta Zielinska

Faculty Advisor
Ivan Oransky, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York University

Publisher
Dan Fagin
Associate Professor, New York University
Director, SHERP

Corrections Policy
Here at Scienceline, we do our best to be accurate at all times. But after all, we’re only human, so once in a while we do screw up. Please contact us if you think we’ve made a mistake. We will correct serious factual errors in the body of the offending article and append a note explaining the change. Typos, punctuation errors, and misspellings will be corrected without notice.

Comments Policy
Comments appear on Scienceline as soon as they are submitted, but we reserve the right to delete inappropriate or offensive posts. Spam will not be tolerated!

Blog Photo Credits:

The Bestiary: Riccardo Cuppini, flickr.com; Elucidata: Katie Peek; Ever Wondered: Katie Peek; The Scienceline Podcast: visual.dichotomy, flickr.com; Scienceline Selects: Katie Peek; The Urban Scientist: Jason Arends, flickr.com