Veronique Greenwood

New York

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, scientific paraphernalia. Writer for The Atlantic, The New York Times, BBC Future, and others.

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Articles

Bovril: A meaty staple's strange link to cult science fiction

1 month ago | bbc.com | Veronique Greenwood

Bovril: A meaty staple's strange link to cult science fictionAlamyInvented to make beef last long journeys to market, Bovril became a famous British kitchen staple. Less well-known is its link to an odd, pioneering science fiction novel. A stout black jar of Bovril with a cheery red top lurks in many a British kitchen, next to tins of treacle and boxes of tea.
To learn the fate of the oceans, it helps to read clams - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Veronique Greenwood

Veronique Greenwood is a science writer who contributes regularly to Globe Ideas. On the seafloor off the coast of British Columbia, sediment swirls and a black tube snakes by, disappearing into a cloud of murk. The tube leads to a wide pit occupied by a scuba diver busily vacuuming up the earth. The diver is collecting the thick white clamshells that stud the walls of the pit. Some of them have been buried in the mud of the North Pacific for hundreds of years, perhaps even a millennium.
The Best Way to Drop an Egg

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Veronique Greenwood

How the shell cracks in an exercise known as the egg drop challenge turned out to be more complicated than science teachers have been telling students for many years. The egg drop challenge is an annual rite of passage for many students learning about physics: Swaddle an egg in cotton balls and masking tape or other materials, and then drop it off the roof of your school.
O misterioso fluxo de líquido no cérebro e o que isso tem a ver com uma boa noite de sono

2 months ago | estadao.com.br | Veronique Greenwood

Encapsulado dentro do crânio, no topo da coluna vertebral, o cérebro tem uma existência cuidadosamente controlada: ele recebe apenas certos nutrientes, todos bem filtrados pela barreira hematoencefálica, e é protegido por um elaborado sistema de membranas. Esse espaço privilegiado guarda um mistério. Por mais de um século, cientistas se perguntaram: se é assim tão difícil para qualquer coisa entrar no cérebro, como os resíduos saem?
Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors

2 months ago | quantamagazine.org | Ariel Bleicher |Yasemin Saplakoglu |Veronique Greenwood |Viviane Callier

Like many proud parents, David Ginty has decorated his office with pictures of his genetic creations. There’s the prickly one sporting a spiked collar and the wannabe cowboy twirling a lasso. There’s the dramatic one, always reacting to the slightest provocation; the observant one that notices every detail; the golden child Ginty loves to boast about. “They’re like a family,” he said.
La increíble red de bacterias marinas que sustenta la vida en la Tierra

2 months ago | es.wired.com | Veronique Greenwood

Este artículo se publicó originalmente en Quanta Magazine. El alga verde procariota Prochlorococcus es una especie de cianobacteria marina y es extremadamente pequeña. Si pusiéramos en fila 1,000 de ellas, tendrían aproximadamente el grosor de una uña del pulgar humano. Los océanos están inundados de Prochlorococcus, el organismo fotosintético más abundante de la Tierra, que produce entre un 10 % y un 20 % del oxígeno de la atmósfera.
地球上の生命を支える海洋バクテリア、その驚くべきネットワーク

2 months ago | wired.jp | Veronique Greenwood

原核緑藻のプロクロロコッカスは海洋性シアノバクテリアの一種で、極めて小さい。およそ1,000個を並べてようやくヒトの親指の爪の厚さほどになるくらいだ。海はこのプロクロロコッカスで溢れ返っている──そう言えるほど、地球上に最も大量に存在する光合成生物であり、大気中の酸素の実に10～20％をつくり出している。つまり、地球上の生命は、ざっと3オクティリオン（3x10^27）の微小な細胞一つひとつがたゆまず働き続けることによって維持されているということだ。生物学者はかつて、こういった生物をとてつもなく広い海を漂う孤独な漂流生物だと考えていた。だが、プロクロロコッカスの個体群は、わたしたちが想像する以上に密接につながり合っているのかもしれない。遠く離れていても情報を交換し、しかも海洋をその情報と栄養素で満たしているだけではなく、個々の細胞の孤立した内部空間だと考えられていた部分が、ほかの細胞の内部とつながり合っている可能性があるのだ。...
Nosso corpo pode se tornar intolerante à carne?

Mar 27, 2025 | g1.globo.com | Veronique Greenwood

Passar a comer menos carne é uma das formas mais simples de reduzir sua pegada de carbono. Pesquisadores calculam que, se todas as pessoas do Reino Unido adotassem uma dieta de baixo teor de carne, com menos de 50 g por dia (o equivalente a uma linguiça de Cumberland), a economia de carbono seria equivalente a tirar 8 milhões de carros das ruas para sempre. Dados do governo britânico demonstram que o consumo de carne está caindo.
The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain

Mar 26, 2025 | quantamagazine.org | Veronique Greenwood

Encased in the skull, perched atop the spine, the brain has a carefully managed existence. It receives only certain nutrients, filtered through the blood-brain barrier; an elaborate system of protective membranes surrounds it. That privileged space contains a mystery. For more than a century, scientists have wondered: If it’s so hard for anything to get into the brain, how does waste get out?
Nosso corpo pode se tornar intolerante à carne?

Mar 20, 2025 | correiobraziliense.com.br | Veronique Greenwood

Passar a comer menos carne é uma das formas mais simples de reduzir sua pegada de carbono. Pesquisadores calculam que, se todas as pessoas do Reino Unido adotassem uma dieta de baixo teor de carne, com menos de 50 g por dia (o equivalente a uma linguiça de Cumberland), a economia de carbono seria equivalente a tirar 8 milhões de carros das ruas para sempre. Dados do governo britânico demonstram que o consumo de carne está caindo.