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CARMEN DRAHL

I write news, features, profiles, Q&As, and blog posts.

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AI generated image. A researcher typed sentences like "Black African doctors providing care for white suffering children" into an artificial intelligence program designed to generate photo-like images. The goal was to flip the stereotype of the "white savior" aiding African children. Despite the specifications, the AI program always depicted the children as Black. And in 22 of over 350 images, the doctors were white.
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AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go?

How to String Together Tweet Threads That Inform and Inspire

The Open Notebook

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Oxia Planum is the site on Mars where the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin rover is slated to land and analyze samples. This enhanced color image taken by the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a relatively flat landscape for the rover to traverse. CREDIT: NASA / JPL-CALTECH / UARIZONA

The long-awaited mission that could transform our understanding of Mars

Here’s how long the periodic table’s unstable elements last

Science News (Winner, 2019 Eddie Award for Best Series of Articles in Science & Technology)

HALF-LIFE COUNTDOWN Generally, for elements after uranium on the periodic table, the further along elements are — the higher their atomic number — the less time they endure.
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Oluwatoyin Asojo has dedicated her career to work on diseases that get little funding and attention, including hookworm.
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Protein whisperer Oluwatoyin Asojo fights neglected diseases

Luis Miramontes helped enable the sexual revolution. Why isn’t he better known?

In 1951, at the age of 26, Luis Miramontes (pictured here not long after) made one of the first active ingredients in birth control pills.
COURTESY MIRAMONTES-VIDAL FAMILY, OFFICIAL ARCHIVE, PHYSICS INSTITUTE OF THE NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO (UNAM)

On Jan. 23, 2020, as the coronavirus spread in China, residents of Wuhan, where it was first identified, donned masks to go shopping. The U.S. didn't officially endorse masks as a preventive measure for the public for a number of weeks.
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COVID flashback: On Jan. 30, 2020, WHO declared a global health emergency

Plastics recycling with microbes and worms is further away than people think

Chemical & Engineering News

Credit: Spanish National Research Council/Caption: These polyethylene-eating caterpillars launched a media feeding frenzy, but it's not certain they biochemically degrade the plastic.

Bottles Wine Garden in Foggy Bottom aims to focus on wines made by women or from women-owned vineyards, such as Chateau Cambon.
Taylor Mickal / Bottles Wine Garden

After WaPo Critic Couldn’t Name Any Local Female Sommeliers, D.C.’s Wine Women Speak Up

Aerosol expert Jose-Luis Jimenez is sounding the alarm about airborne transmission of COVID-19

Chemical & Engineering News

Credit: Courtesy of Jose-Luis Jimenez

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Scientists Margarita *09 and Andrew Womack *11 Find Their Mission in the Kitchen

Princeton Alumni Weekly

The Fossils That Have No Bones

Colgate Magazine

Liz Rampe measures a Mars-analog sample in the laboratory version of the CheMin instrument on the Curiosity rover. Photography courtesy of NASA.

A cartoon depicts a microbe on a lounge chair on the beach, holding a cocktail in one hand. Ryan Snook

'Lazy' microbes reveal their secret drugs when they must work to get nutrients

Princeton Alumni Weekly

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