Sophie Hartley is a freelance science journalist and photographer based in Washington, D.C. After studying Comparative Human Development and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago, she earned a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and interned at Science News Magazine.
Her reporting on land management, natural resources, and environmental health has appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine, Science Friday, Science News, bioGraphic, Ars Technica, and elsewhere.
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How One Photo Of A Flower Reignited A Species Debate
A new photo of a long-forgotten flower showed up online. Identifying it means getting into the tricky question of how a species is defined.