Contributing writer at DiscoverMag, Words: NYTimes, Scientific American, NatGeo
Previously: The Charleston Post and Courier, Discovery Channel saranovakwrites.com/
Sara Novak
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Some of my favorite things from our hike through Naxos. #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub
Very exciting to see my piece in @nytimes.com about sleeping with (and like) fish in print in The Science Times! 🐟 🧪🐠😴
Top of the morning to you. A spring bloom to start your morning right. #5amwritersclub
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Friends in healthcare! I'm working on an article on how healthcare workers experience and manage digital fatigue and burnout. I would love to speak with physicians, nurse, or a physician's assistant that currently dealing with the issue. Please pass this along. Thank you!!
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In my latest for @nytimes.com, whether tucked away in a colony of coral, hidden in the darkness of an aquatic cave or floating catatonic just above the ocean floor, fish take opportunities for rest and recovery, just as we do.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/s...
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In my latest @discovermag.bsky.social at Mammoth Cave, six new species of ancient sharks as well as rare 3D specimens, were preserved in a grainy material that was actually made of other skeletal animals like sea stars and shells.
www.discovermagazine.com/mammoth-cave...
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In my latest @sciam.bsky.social, scientists have long been fascinated by how birth order can affect everything from personality to sexual orientation. Now researchers have looked at how birth order affects the likelihood of various health conditions.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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In my latest @sierramagazine.bsky.social, it's coyote puppy season and man are they cute! Tucked away in abandoned tires, sheds, and ubiquitous holes burrowed into the landscape, coyotes are hard at work propagating their next generation.
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/cute-...
In my latest @nytimes.com, honeycreepers are adapted to the most unforgiving of ecosystems, at high elevations where mosquitoes can’t go, equipped with curved bills suited to forage on native flowers. Now. researchers have pinpointed another evolutionary trick
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/s...
In my latest for @sciam.bsky.social, the Trump administration's move to reclassify some cannabis products as less dangerous has been hailed by advocates. But research points to a growing concern around how cannabis affects the developing teen brain. 🧪
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
