Emily Conover

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Emily Conover is an American science journalist, best known for being the only two-time winner of the D.C. Science Writers Association's Newsbrief award. As of 2016, she has been a reporter for American bi-weekly magazine Science News.

Education

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In 2014, Conover earned her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She then transitioned from science to scientific journalism via the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.[1]

Career

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In 2015, while she was an intern at Science magazine, Conover won the D.C. Science Writers Association's 2015 Newsbrief Award in the Writing category for her 250-word article ScienceShot “How to prevent a sheep traffic jam,"[a] in which she details crowd behavior shared between sheep and humans.[2] In 2018, she won the same award for her Science News article, “How ravens caused a LIGO data glitch,”[b] making her the only person to receive two Newsbrief awards.[3]

In 2015, she began writing news for the American Physical Society. In 2016, she joined Science News as a scientific journalist, covering physics news.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Personal life

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Her father is marine biologist and professor David O. Conover and her mother, Margaret Conover, is a botanist and science educator. Her older brother, Adam Conover, is a comedian and was the host of Adam Ruins Everything.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Winners Announced for Tenth Annual DCSWA Newsbrief Award" (Press release). The D.C. Science Writers Association. 28 March 2019. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019.
  2. ^ Korte, Andrea. "Science Article Wins Newsbrief Award | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Newsbrief Awards". The D.C. Science Writers Association. 2015 Awards and 2018 Awards. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  4. ^ "Scientists and Journalists Square Off Over 'Getting it Right'". Undark Magazine. 1 March 2018.
  5. ^ Machemer, Theresa. "Scientists Are Detecting More Gravitational Waves Than Ever Before". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Let's learn about the periodic table". Science News for Students. 15 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Notre Dame fire investigation to reveal secrets from its medieval history". Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture. 19 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Astronomers discover two giant, high-energy 'bubbles' at the center of the Milky Way". www.pbs.org. 12 September 2019.
  9. ^ Wu, Katherine J. "Super-Strong Electric Forces May Have Helped Tiny Clumps of Dust Seed the Planets". Smithsonian Magazine.
  10. ^ "Google's 72-Qubit Quantum Computer Could Make History". PBS. 6 March 2018.
  11. ^ "LI's Adam Conover returns for season 2 of truTV's 'Adam Ruins Everything'".

Notes

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  1. ^ Conover, Emily (24 February 2015). "Video: How to prevent a sheep traffic jam". Scienceshots. Science. doi:10.1126/science.aaa7897. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  2. ^ Conover, Emily (18 April 2018). "How ravens caused a LIGO data glitch". Science News. Retrieved 22 October 2025.