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Joanna Thompson

Writing Intern

Flying butterflies overlaid with the cobwebby pattern of a logistic diagram.
mathematical biology

Hidden Chaos Found to Lurk in Ecosystems

By Joanna Thompson
July 27, 2022
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New research finds that chaos plays a bigger role in population dynamics than decades of ecological data seemed to suggest.

Colorful opalized shell of a fossil ammonite.
geology

Life Helps Make Almost Half of Earth’s Minerals

By Joanna Thompson
July 1, 2022
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A new origins-based system for classifying minerals reveals the huge geochemical imprint that life has left on Earth. It could help us identify other worlds with life too.

About the author

Joanna Thompson graduated from North Carolina State University in 2015 with degrees in zoology and creative writing, and recently completed the Science, Health & Environmental Reporting program at New York University. Prior to coming to Quanta, she interned with the National Audubon Society, Live Science and Scientific American.

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