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 .
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]
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]
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]