My second installment in a series of interviews from the Netherlands is with geoscientist and climate change expert, Dr. Peter Bijl. He recalls constantly observing [...]

In the swing of Shark Week, I was able to virtually sit down with white shark researcher, Michelle Wcisel. As we talked, I noticed a [...]

In planning a trip to the Netherlands for some secret missions for Your Wild Life, I reached out to area scientists to get a different [...]

Dr. Claire Gordy (left) has always been a writer -- in middle school she had a column in her local Oklahoma newspaper. Now she continues to [...]

It seems kind of shocking that I've interviewed 32 scientists and science writers for our "Before They Were Scientists" series, and yet somehow our fearless [...]

Today we take a journey back to middle school with ant biologist and School of Ants co-founder, Andrea Lucky. As a middle school student, she [...]

In hearing about Jiri Hulcr's childhood growing up during the revolution in the Czech Republic, I gained some insight into how he approaches science. He [...]

I had the wonderful opportunity to [virtually] meet Joan Herbers this past week and talk about her life as a middle school student and pick [...]

Dr. Bill Grant doesn't have any pictures from middle school, but he did save his senior yearbook and some assorted photos from his childhood home. [...]

Hopi Hoekstra [seen in the image standing on the right dressed, appropriately, as a mouse] spent her middle school years in northern California. As a native [...]

Tony Baines and I met for lunch on a day with a powerful Southern thunderstorm. Tony spent the first part of our meal asking questions about [...]

I feel inclined to set the stage for this interview more than for any other I have done previously. I drive up to a small [...]

Meeting Angelica Cibrian, even virtually, was inspiring. She tells her middle school stories of transitioning from Mexico, to the U.S. and back again with lots [...]

Max Boeck (pronounced "Beck"-- the "o" is silent) is a scientist and an Australian. We met at an artsy coffee shop in Chapel Hill, NC, [...]

Last week, I sat down (virtually) with Dr. Meg Lowman, also known as Canopy Meg, who is settling into her new home in San Francisco. [...]