Katarina Zimmer

Katarina Zimmer is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Scientist, BBC Future, and National Geographic.

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Insects Might Feel Pain. Should Scientists Care?

New evidence is prompting some researchers to rethink ethics in the lab.
- Katarina Zimmer
- July 30, 2022
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Full-Bodied With Notes of Band-Aid and Medicine

Climate change is altering wine as we know it.
- Ula Chrobak and Katarina Zimmer
- June 26, 2022
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Lion Bones Are Popping Up in Some Very Unexpected Places

Archaeologists long assumed that the only lions on the continent were mythical. Then they started finding bones.
- Katarina Zimmer
- January 9, 2022
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Hedges Do Way More Than Block Your View

They also link ecosystems together, supporting thousands of species.
- Katarina Zimmer and Knowable Magazine
- November 13, 2021