Meet Jen Schwartz, Senior Features Editor

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Meet the Editor: Jen Schwartz, Senior Features Editor Since 2017, Jen Schwartz has been shaping compelling science stories as a senior features editor at Scientific American. Her curiosity runs deep, rooted in a childhood surrounded by science, thanks to her physician father and water chemist mother. "I learned to understand the world through the lens of scientific-style inquiry," she says.   At 19, she published her first article in the Boston Globe, investigating what happens to locked-up bicycles abandoned around Boston. That early instinct to observe and question continues to drive her work today. "How are we adapting, or not, to a rapidly changing world?" is the central question behind many of her stories, she says.   Schwartz believes science journalism should spark wonder while tackling complexity. "We all want to be lit up by a sense of awe," she says, "but that doesn't mean avoiding challenging subjects. It means helping people connect the dots and expand their sense of wonder."   Her hope? That you finish a story thinking, "Now I get it," or even better, "I can't wait to talk about this."    Subscribe to Scientific American​ to read all of Jen's stories and many more.   Read Stories by Jen

Discover Jen's Exciting Work Plastics Started as a Sustainability Solution. What Went Wrong? Synthetic polymers were supposed to free us from the limitations of our natural resources. Instead they led to an environmental crisis... Read more Podcast: A Nontoxic Disinfectant That Is Safe for Surfaces and Skin Hypochlorous acid has a lot of buzz in the beauty industry, but this nontoxic disinfectant has many possible uses... Listen Why Ticks and Lyme Disease Are Soaring This Summer I'd done everything you're supposed to do to avoid a tick bite: Tucked permethrin-impregnated pants into permethrin-impregnated socks. Sprayed picaridin on my... Read more.

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