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Catherine Meyers

Editor

Catherine Meyers is a deputy editor for Inside Science. She has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Harvey Mudd College and a graduate certificate in science writing from UC Santa Cruz. She has written for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the Monterey Herald, and ScienceNOW, the online science news arm of AAAS. Before beginning her writing career, Catherine worked as a software/firmware tester and tech support analyst for a leading manufacturer of data radios and also served a two-year stint in the Peace Corps in Ukraine.

Author articles

Creature

How Desert Rattlesnakes Harvest Rainwater

Water sticks to the snakes’ backs because of special properties of their scales.

Catherine Meyers, Editor

Human

Catching Measles Makes You More Susceptible to Other Diseases

Unvaccinated children who contracted the illness lost their immunity to many other infections.

Catherine Meyers, Editor

Technology

How Some Nobel Prize-Winning Battery Research Weathered the Test of Time

Scientists found that some early commercial lithium batteries held up pretty well after about 35 years in storage.

Catherine Meyers, Editor

Technology

Chemistry Nobel Prize Honors Three Scientists Who Developed Lithium-Ion Batteries

The rechargeable, lightweight batteries revolutionized the way we power a host of devices.

Catherine Meyers, Editor

Culture

The Bold and Bewildering Curiosity of Alexander von Humboldt

Doing dangerous things in pursuit of new knowledge was par for the course for this Prussian polymath, born 250 years ago this month.

Catherine Meyers, Editor

Earth

The Strange Holes in Indiana Dunes, America's Newest National Park

Scientists now know much more about the underground cavities in the sand that nearly killed a boy in 2013.

Catherine Meyers, Editor

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