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Sam Walters

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine. For Discover’s website, Sam covers topics including archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, along with an assortment of other scientific studies. Sam also assigns and edits features for Discover’s print magazine and manages the History Lessons and Hot Science sections. 

Before joining the Discover team in 2022, Sam studied journalism and history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and served as a Leopold Fellow at the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies. Sam graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree.
COVID 19
Mental Recovery From COVID-19 Symptoms Can Take Up to 9 Months
Nine Galaxies COSMOS Web
Some 800,000 Galaxies Shine in Our Most Complete Map of the Universe Yet
Burnt Fallow Deer Bones From Qesem Cave 1
Early Humans May Have Used Fires to Smoke Meat One Million Years Ago
Photo-Controlled Bacteria to Beat Antibiotic Resistance
How Light-Controlled Bacteria Could Tackle the Problem of Antibiotic Resistance
Checua Skeletons
South America’s First Hunter-Gatherers Appeared, Then Unusually Disappeared 2,000 Years Ago
Macrophages infected with Yersinia pestis.
Black Death Bacterium Evolved to be Less Aggressive to Kill Victims Slowly
Arctic Alaska Birds and Dinosaurs Around 73 Million Years Ago
Birds Nested Alongside Dinosaurs in Alaska 73 Million Years Ago
Planet X
Chaos in Our Solar System Could’ve Caused Planet X’s Theoretically Wide Orbit
Neanderthal Fingerprint
A Neanderthal Fingerprint Points to Art, and Possibly Portraiture, Around 43,000 Years Ago
round worms
Worms Can Smell Death, and It Strangely Alters Their Fertility and Fitness
Shrinking Clownfish
Clownfish Shrink in Size With Their Breeding Partners to Survive Heat Stress
A mother and baby humpback whale in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia.
Rare Humpback Whale Calf Sighting Makes Migration Routes More Mysterious Than Once Thought

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