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Joanna Thompson

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Joanna Thompson graduated from North Carolina State University in 2015 with degrees in zoology and creative writing, and recently completed the Science, Health & Environmental Reporting program at New York University. Prior to her current position as a writing intern at Quanta, she interned with the National Audubon Society, Live Science and Scientific American.

Zoology

Sharks Show How Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects

Despite their wild variety of sizes, niches, and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental constraints on evolution

November 27, 2025
Geoscience

Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth

A new origins-based system for classifying minerals reveals the huge geochemical imprint that life has left on Earth. It could help us identify other worlds with life too.

July 8, 2022