Ellie Shechet

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Ellie Shechet has written for The New York Times, Popular Science, The New Republic, VICE Magazine, and Scholastic’s Science World. She is currently working as an editor in the Digital and Print Media department at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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This plant spins its own woolen coat

This plant spins its own woolen coat

By Ellie Shechet / Jun 18, 2021
Drones revealed the intricate social lives of these killer whales

Drones revealed the intricate social lives of these killer whales

By Ellie Shechet / Jun 16, 2021
Laughing gas could help people with hard-to-treat depression

Laughing gas could help people with hard-to-treat depression

By Ellie Shechet / Jun 14, 2021
Salt marshes keep score on humanity’s plastic problem

Salt marshes keep score on humanity’s plastic problem

By Ellie Shechet / Jun 10, 2021
Frozen Siberian microbes just woke up from a 24,000-year nap—and immediately got busy

Frozen Siberian microbes just woke up from a 24,000-year nap—and immediately got busy

By Ellie Shechet / Jun 9, 2021
Lakes around the world are losing oxygen

Lakes around the world are losing oxygen

By Ellie Shechet / Jun 7, 2021
Cities have unique microbiomes which could be key to keeping us healthy

Cities have unique microbiomes which could be key to keeping us healthy

By Ellie Shechet / Jun 2, 2021
Can we untangle ecology from its baked-in colonial biases?

Can we untangle ecology from its baked-in colonial biases?

By Ellie Shechet / May 27, 2021
There are more immunocompromised Americans than we think, and that’s a problem with COVID-19 vaccines

There are more immunocompromised Americans than we think, and that’s a problem with COVID-19 vaccines

By Ellie Shechet / May 21, 2021
Jumping spiders have a mysterious nighttime habit

Jumping spiders have a mysterious nighttime habit

By Ellie Shechet / May 19, 2021

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