Hannah Richter is a freelance science journalist based in Washington D.C. She works part-time with Science’s ScienceAdviser newsletter and recently worked as the outreach coordinator for the Event Horizon Telescope at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Her bylines can be found in Science, Nature, Smithsonian, WIRED, Science News, Sky & Telescope, Ars Technica, Popular Mechanics, and Sierra, among others. She wrote an e-book for NASA about the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and has previously interned at Science, NASA, Circle of Blue, Living on Earth radio, and the YouTube channel Veritasium.

Recent Publications Include:

• As the world warms, freezing rain shifts to the U.S. South
• Life In Europa’s Ocean Could Feed On Rocks’ Radioactive Decay
• Replenishing Sapped Groundwater Could Trigger Small Earthquakes
• In Red States, Many Academic Researchers Feel Fear–And Resolve
• A ‘Solar Bump’ Could Help Data Centers Recover Wasted Energy