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Dana Najjar

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A baby lizard emerging from a transparent egg membrane.
Abstractions blog

Egg Laying or Live Birth: How Evolution Chooses

By Dana Najjar
May 18, 2020
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A lizard that both lays eggs and gives birth to live young is helping scientists understand how and why these forms of reproduction evolved.

A quantum knot.
Abstractions blog

‘Milestone’ Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles

By Dana Najjar
May 12, 2020
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Anyons don’t fit into either of the two known particle kingdoms. To find them, physicists had to erase the third dimension.

A split level photo shows algae growing on rocks both above and below the surface of the water at a margin of a Welsh glacial lake.
Abstractions blog

Billion-Year-Old Algae and Newer Genes Hint at Land Plants’ Origin

By Dana Najjar
March 26, 2020
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A recently unearthed fossil and new genomic discoveries are filling important gaps in scientists’ understanding of how primitive green algae eventually evolved into land vegetation.

Cosmic reionization video.
Abstractions blog

How the Cosmic Dark Ages Snuffed Out All Light

By Dana Najjar
March 2, 2020
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The recent discovery of some of the first galaxies in the universe illuminates the darkest era in cosmic history.

Computer simulation of gravitational waves produced by a binary neutron star merger.
Abstractions blog

‘Radical Change’ Needed After Latest Neutron Star Collision

By Dana Najjar
February 20, 2020
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A recent neutron star merger has defied astronomers’ expectations, leading them to question longstanding ideas about neutron stars and the supernovas that create them. “We have to go back to the drawing board.”

About the author

Dana Najjar is a science journalist and software developer. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Popular Science, LiveScience and other publications. She has a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in physics from the University of Chicago.
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