Nell Greenfieldboyce

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Nell Greenfieldboyce is a NPR science correspondent.

With reporting focused on general science, NASA, and the intersection between technology and society, Greenfieldboyce has been on the science desk's technology beat since she joined NPR in 2005.

In that time Greenfieldboyce has reported on topics including the narwhals in Greenland, the ending of the space shuttle program, and the reasons why independent truckers don't want electronic tracking in their cabs.

Much of Greenfieldboyce's reporting reflects an interest in discovering how applied science and technology connects with people and culture. She has worked on stories spanning issues such as pet cloning, gene therapy, ballistics, and federal regulation of new technology.

Prior to NPR, Greenfieldboyce spent a decade working in print, mostly magazines including U.S. News & World Report and New Scientist.

A graduate of Johns Hopkins, earning her Bachelor's of Arts degree in social sciences and a Master's of Arts degree in science writing, Greenfieldboyce taught science writing for four years at the university. She was honored for her talents with the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists.

NASA Moves Forward With Plans For Multi-Billion-Dollar Moon Rocket

By Nell Greenfieldboyce • Jul 12, 2019

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Moon Rocks Still Awe, And Scientists Hope To Get Their Hands On More

By Nell Greenfieldboyce • Jul 10, 2019

Darby Dyar says that as a kid, whenever Apollo astronauts returned from the moon, she and her classmates would get ushered into the school library to watch it on TV.

As NASA Aims For The Moon, An Aging Space Station Faces An Uncertain Future

By Nell Greenfieldboyce • Jul 7, 2019

When a rocket carrying the first module of the International Space Station blasted off from Kazakhstan in November of 1998, NASA officials said the station would serve as an orbiting home for astronauts and cosmonauts for at least 15 years.

NASA Will Send A Drone To Buzz Around Saturn's Largest Moon

By Nell Greenfieldboyce • Jun 28, 2019

A drone called Dragonfly will be buzzing around Saturn's largest moon in 2034, if all goes according to plan.

That's because NASA has picked a mission to the icy moon Titan for its next major foray out into the solar system.

To Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over

By Nell Greenfieldboyce • Jun 11, 2019

Mike Morrison hardly looks like a revolutionary. He's wearing a dark suit and has short hair. But we're about to enter a world of conformity that hasn't changed in decades — maybe even a century. And in there, his vision seems radical.

"We are about to walk into a room full of 100 scientific posters, where researchers are trying to display their findings on a big poster board," says Morrison, a doctoral student in psychology at Michigan State University.