Emily Conover

In 2015, while she was an intern at Science magazine, Conover won the D.C. Science Writers Association's 2015 Newsbrief Award in the Writing category for her 250-word article ScienceShot “How to prevent a sheep traffic jam,"^[a] in which she details crowd behavior shared between sheep and humans.^[2] In 2018, she won the same award for her Science News article, “How ravens caused a LIGO data glitch,”^[b] making her the only person to receive two Newsbrief awards.^[3]

In 2015, she began writing news for the American Physical Society. In 2016, she joined Science News as a scientific journalist, covering physics news.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Her father is marine biologist and professor David O. Conover and her mother, Margaret Conover, is a botanist and science educator. Her older brother, Adam Conover, is a comedian and was the host of Adam Ruins Everything.^[11]