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Barbara Moran

Barbara Moran is an award-winning science journalist who has written for many publications, including the New York Times, New Scientist, Technology Review, the Boston Globe Magazine, and the Hartford Courant. She has also produced television documentaries for PBS, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and others. She has an MS in science journalism from Boston University, and was a 2001 Knight Fellow at MIT. Her first book, The Day We Lost the H-bomb, a narrative nonfiction account of the worst nuclear weapons accident in history, was an Amazon pick of the month when published in 2009, and was shortlisted for the History of Science Society’s Davis Award. Moran’s investigative work has been featured on NPR, CBC, BBC Online, and many other media outlets. In addition to writing for BU Research, she is an adjunct professor in BU's graduate program in science journalism.

This Cheap Test Diagnoses Zika in Hours

Barbara Moran
Science & Medicine
Researchers built and tested a new Zika diagnostic test in about six weeks. The simple and inexpensive test uses RNA sensors embedded in discs of paper that turn from yellow to purple in the presence of the...

Skittle Test: When Do Kids Around the World Say “No Fair”?

Barbara Moran
Science & Medicine
This article was originally published in Futurity.  People in the US cherish their ideals of fairness. And American children can be especially strident—some might say loud—advocates for equality....
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