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Elizabeth Landau

Atlanta, Washington, D.C.

Senior Communications Specialist, NASA and Freelance Writer at Freelance

By day @NASA & freelance for @NYTimes @QuantaMagazine @HakaiMagazine @Nature. Views mine. Formerly check marked. https://t.co/cdsgFOADRk. M: @[email protected]

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  • 3 weeks ago | science.nasa.gov | Elizabeth Landau

    Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter falls in. But other black holes secretly lie in wait for years until a star comes close enough to snack on. Scientists have recently identified three supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies, each of which suddenly brightened when it destroyed a star and then stayed bright for several months.

  • 3 weeks ago | share.google | Conor Feehly |Molly Herring |Elizabeth Landau |Zack Savitsky

    Introduction You’ve just gotten home from an exhausting day. All you want to do is put your feet up and zone out to whatever is on television. Though the inactivity may feel like a well-earned rest, your brain is not just chilling. In fact, it is using nearly as much energy as it did during your stressful activity, according to recent research.

  • 3 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.fr | Elizabeth Landau |David Guttenfelder

    Des chercheurs décomposent les substances toxiques de la nature pour découvrir comment leurs molécules fonctionnent. Leur travail ouvre notamment la voie à la fabrication d’analgésiques d’un genre nouveau. Publication 1 juin 2025, 12:22 CESTSam Robinson n’est pas prêt d’oublier sa rencontre abominable avec un arbre titanesque recouvert d’aiguillons dans le parc national du Main Range.

  • 1 month ago | quantamagazine.org | Elizabeth Landau

    Coulson, who was a graduate student with Staples and Guglielmo at the time, led a study on the yellow-rumped warbler, a songbird that migrates between Canada, where it nests, and its wintering grounds in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. First, during the birds’ fall migration, they captured the southbound songbirds and brought them into the lab. There, they managed the birds’ exposure to light and darkness to create two laboratory groups of “migratory” and “nonmigratory” warblers.

  • 1 month ago | nelsonpub.com | Elizabeth Landau

    By Elizabeth Landau, Senior Communications Specialist, NASASince the big bang, the early universe had hydrogen, helium, and a scant amount of lithium. Later, some heavier elements, including iron, were forged in stars. But one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics is: How did the first elements heavier than iron, such as gold, get created and distributed throughout the universe?

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Liz Landau
Liz Landau @lizlandau
2 May 25

"When I’m struggling, I think back to, OK, you know, they dealt with it, they handled it" - @natalie_hinkel on the women of the Harvard College Observatory Learn more in my story for @SmithsonianMag: https://t.co/R3HsPAV0ft

Liz Landau
Liz Landau @lizlandau
30 Apr 25

The fringe-lipped bat learns how to eavesdrop on frogs, and picks out the ones that are tasty by listening to their mating calls! My latest for @NatGeo https://t.co/vzWTMPM4zs

Liz Landau
Liz Landau @lizlandau
30 Apr 25

Where did gold first appear in the early universe? It might have come from highly magnetized neutron stars! My latest for @NASA: https://t.co/Iu1ohAv0Cx