Jeffery DelViscio

Boston

Chief Multimedia Editor and Executive Producer at Scientific American

Chief Multimedia Editor/EP #video & #podcast @Sciam. Emmy winner. Drone pilot. 3D tinkerer. Formers: @KSJatMIT @statnews @nytimes

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Articles

How Bird Flu Went from Devastating Poultry Farms to Infecting Dairy Herds

2 days ago | scientificamerican.com | Meghan Bartels |Jeffery DelViscio |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura |Rachel Feltman

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to part two of our three-part series on the battle against bird flu. On Monday we followed flocks of wild birds to learn how new strains of avian influenza emerge and spread. Today we’re headed out to pasture to check out the next link in the chain from shorebird to human: poultry and dairy farms. Our host today is Meghan Bartels, a senior news reporter at Scientific American. Here’s Meghan now.
When Will Greenland’s Ice Disappear? Scientists Are Racing to Find Out

1 week ago | scientificamerican.com | Jeffery DelViscio

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. Inside a tent fastened to the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet, the members of the GreenDrill expedition huddled around a drilling rig. The machine whined and shook as it spun. For days the drillers had been inching through ancient, solid ice to reach the rock below. Outside, the sun burned down through a cloudless sky.
Greenland’s Ice Sheet Collapse Could Be Closer Than We Think

1 week ago | aol.com | Jeffery DelViscio

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. Inside a tent fastened to the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet, the members of the GreenDrill expedition huddled around a drilling rig. The machine whined and shook as it spun. For days the drillers had been inching through ancient, solid ice to reach the rock below. Outside, the sun burned down through a cloudless sky.
What If Mitochondria Aren’t Only the Powerhouse of the Cell?

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Jeffery DelViscio |Alex Sugiura

Rachel Feltman: Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, right? Well, it turns out they might be way more complicated than that, and that could have implications for everything from diet and exercise to treating mental health conditions. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Our guest today is Martin Picard, an associate professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University.
Real Ice Experiments with Polar Geoengineering to Refreeze Melting Arctic Sea Ice

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Alec Luhn |Fonda Mwangi |Alex Sugiura |Jeffery DelViscio

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You don’t have to pay much attention to the news to know that climate change is causing Arctic sea ice to melt—and to understand that this is a huge problem. Ice reflects sunlight, which helps keep cold places cold.
Measuring Gluons and Quarks at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the Nation’s Only Particle Collider

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Naeem Amarsy |Fonda Mwangi |Kelso Harper |Carin Leong |Jeffery DelViscio

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. Today we’re taking you on another one of our Friday Fascination field trips with an auditory journey to Brookhaven National Laboratory. This Long Island facility boasts seven Nobel Prize–winning discoveries and more than 70 years of groundbreaking research into energy and the environment.
How THC, the Psychoactive Compound in Weed, Gets You High

2 months ago | scientificamerican.com | Jeffery DelViscio |Mary Budwick |Michael Tabb

Marijuana contains more than 500 active compounds. But most people focus on two: There’s cannabidiol, or CBD, which reduces inflammation. And then there’s THC, which is the main psychoactive component—it’s the reason weed gives you the relaxed and “euphoric” sensation of being high. THC stands for tetrahydrocannabinol. It’s a compound that comes from the flowers of female cannabis plants, though there’s some in other parts of the plant, too.
Studying Science, Medicine and Engineering at a Nanoscale at an M.I.T. Clean Room

Mar 28, 2025 | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Jeffery DelViscio |Kelso Harper |Carin Leong

Rachel Feltman: Hey, it’s Rachel, and I am here in a bunny suit at MIT.nano with Professor Vladimir Bulović, who is going to show us around. Vladimir Bulović: Well, it’s a pleasure to have you here. Thanks for coming. [The] goal of this space is to enable anyone to build anything they wish. Feltman: Hey, it's still Rachel, but now I'm here at the Scientific American recording studio. As you just heard, today's episode is a little different than our standard format.
Kansas Tuberculosis Outbreak Emphasizes the Importance of Public Health Infrastructure

Mar 12, 2025 | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Fonda Mwangi |Jeffery DelViscio

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. This week marks the fifth anniversary of COVID being declared a global pandemic. So much changed about all our lives then that we are still feeling five years later. As we reflect on this anniversary, our producer Fonda Mwangi took a pulse check on where the U.S. public health system is now and the lessons it’s learned.
Celebrating the Gaia Mission and the Future of Milky Way Mapping

Feb 26, 2025 | scientificamerican.com | Rachel Feltman |Lee Billings |Jeffery DelViscio |Madison Goldberg

[CLIP: Theme music]Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’ve probably heard of space telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb. They’re famous for giving us breathtaking images of the cosmos and providing countless people around the world with very pretty phone backgrounds. But meanwhile a spacecraft you probably haven’t heard of has been busy shaping our understanding of the universe in a quieter, less glamorous way.