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Stories by Starre Vartan

Starre Vartan is a science writer and investigative reporter at work on a book challenging cultural myths and health misinformation about women's bodies (Hachette, 2024). She began her career as an environmental geologist in New England, wrote screenplays on science subjects for HBO and CBS, ran a successful blog in the mid-aughts, and has been published in National Geographic, New Scientist, Undark, CNN and more. A graduate of Syracuse University and Columbia University, she is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia and splits her time between the Seattle and Sydney areas.
September 24, 2014

Technology Unlocks the Mysteries of Bird Flight

Bob Dylan asked: "Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?" Sure, this is a metaphor (in Dylan's case, for a lost love) but it works because the complexities of avian flight—from migration and navigation to group dynamics—have long been a mystery, one with a preponderance of ideas, but few firm answers.

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