Based in Brazil, Fernanda Ferreira is a science writer who covers a range of STEM (and occasionally non-STEM) topics, from textile conservation to vaccine stockpiles.

Archive

Ask MIT Climate
- Feb 28, 2023 What are the best policies to transition home heating away from oil and gas?
- Jan 23, 2023 How much is captured CO2 worth?
- Nov 28, 2022 How do national governments calculate their share of greenhouse gas emissions from international air travel?
GSAS Bulletin
- May 6, 2019 Giving Science a Voice
- Apr 23, 2019 Addressing a Gap
- Mar 22, 2019 Designed by Nature
- Mar 1, 2019 Asking Questions
- Feb 1, 2019 An Indispensable Discipline
- Jan 1, 2019 A Measure of Balance
- Dec 10, 2018 The Stuff of Science
- Oct 24, 2018 Community Connection
- Oct 22, 2018 The Mystery of Bacterial Persistence
- Oct 19, 2018 The Brain at Work
- Oct 9, 2018 Trying Something New
- Sep 25, 2018 Building Confidence as a Teacher
- Apr 24, 2018 A Fascination with Perspective
- Feb 26, 2018 Starting a Technology Revolution
- Jan 24, 2018 Changing Vision
- Nov 20, 2017 A Sense of Place
- Oct 17, 2017 A House of One's Own
- Sep 25, 2017 Historical Relevance
- Apr 19, 2017 The Benefit of Experience
- Apr 5, 2017 A Passion for Policy
- Mar 23, 2017 When Someone Says Yes
- Mar 16, 2017 In Search of Beauty
- Mar 1, 2017 Added Benefits
- Dec 27, 2016 Opening Dialogue
Knight Science Journalism
- Mar 25, 2020 KSJ Fellow Profile: Eva Wolfangel
- Feb 11, 2020 KSJ Fellow Profile: Richard Fisher
MIT EAPS
- May 17, 2020 Melting glaciers cool the Southern Ocean
- Apr 16, 2020 Early life at MIT and on Earth
MIT News
- Sep 3, 2020 A chemist who plays with space
- Aug 19, 2020 Are we still listening to space?
- Jul 27, 2020 Shining a light on the quantum world
- Jun 12, 2020 Capturing Stardust
- Jun 8, 2020 Unlocking the secrets of a plastic-eater
- May 17, 2020 Melting glaciers cool the Southern Ocean
- May 3, 2020 Myth-busting on YouTube
- Mar 4, 2020 Not your average science classroom
- Mar 2, 2020 Answering “Why?”
- Dec 23, 2019 The billion-year belch
- Dec 13, 2019 Supporting students in Puerto Rico after a hurricane’s devastation
- Dec 5, 2019 Fueled by the power of stories
- Nov 22, 2019 Pop-up pop quiz bowl
- Nov 20, 2019 Phoenix cluster is cooling faster than expected
- Oct 28, 2019 Collision course
- Oct 21, 2019 At MIT, 268 take part in world's largest math competition for girls
MIT Technology Review
- Feb 26, 2020 The Great Big Headache of 1968
NASW
- Sep 16, 2020 Cancer drug prevents anaphylaxis in humanized mice
Podcast
- Jun 7, 2016 Sit’N Listen! Episode 7: Mosquitoes and Maladies
Science Magazine
- Nov 2, 2020 Antivaccine videos slip through YouTube’s advertising policies, new study finds
Science in the News
- Dec 11, 2018 Stopping Time: The Science of Textile Conservation
- May 8, 2018 Disease Never Sleeps
- Jan 31, 2018 Can We Treat Heroin Addiction and HIV with a Single Vaccine?
- May 3, 2017 Want to become a better runner? Get some running buddies
- Feb 22, 2017 Plant Viruses: An oft-forgotten threat to food security
- Jan 29, 2017 The Hot, New Normal: Temperature records broken… again
- Sep 8, 2016 Shrink to grow: on the road towards a 57-codon bacterium
- Jul 28, 2016 Mice, light and exploring ALAN’s potential health hazards
- Jul 8, 2016 A Tale of Two Vaccines: Zika Vaccines Show Promise in Mice
- Jun 21, 2016 Remembering the Importance of Sleep for Memory Formation
- Jun 7, 2016 Sit’N Listen! Episode 7: Mosquitoes and Maladies
- Apr 12, 2016 How Tay “Machine Learned” Her Way to Become a Twitter Troll
- Mar 21, 2016 A Turncoat Virus: Remnants of ancient viral infections bolster the immune response to current viruses
- Feb 11, 2016 Melioidosis: Über-neglected and potentially über-dangerous
- Dec 20, 2015 Paris Climate Agreement: An important moral victory with the potential for greatness
- Nov 30, 2015 Zika virus: newly arrived flavivirus may be behind the increase in microcephaly cases in Brazil
- Nov 2, 2015 Oh no! Recent paper may make it harder to blame your character faults on birth order
- Oct 26, 2015 Insect Zoopharmacognosy: Finding medicine where you least expect it
- Oct 7, 2015 The literal tree of life is useful, updatable and already needs updates
- Sep 1, 2015 Ants self-medicate: are even cooler than Ant-Man made them look
- Jul 24, 2015 Be Prepared: Little exaggeration in the Pacific Northwest “Big One” Earthquake Article
- Jul 7, 2015 What’s the skinny on the dangers of skinny jeans?
- Apr 8, 2015 Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble: A medieval drug raises cautious hope in the fight against MRSA
- Mar 11, 2015 Sampling primate poop to provide an important remaining piece to the puzzle of HIV-1 origin
- Dec 31, 2014 Plagues of the Past
Stanford Engineering
- Sep 30, 2022 How can we harness wind and improve airflow to benefit society?
- Jul 18, 2022 An engineer uses an ancient art to solve a very modern problem
- Mar 22, 2022 A data-driven approach to cooling
- Feb 18, 2022 “Protein circuits” move a step closer to cell-to-cell communication
The Conversation
- Feb 26, 2019 Why we see hope for the future of science journalism