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Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer

Adityarup Chakravorty

Adityarup Chakravorty is a freelance science writer based in Madison, Wis. His interests span a wide variety of topics, from Earth sciences to molecular biology. He has written for Eos, Earth magazine, and Hakai Magazine among others. He is also a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is exploring how some human herpesviruses cause cancers (and how to stop them).

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A Great Whale Conveyor Belt Transports Nutrients Across Oceans

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 5 May 20255 May 2025

Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding areas.

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Unregulated Industrial Contaminants Detected in Some U.S. Drinking Water

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 11 February 202524 April 2025

Communities of color are more likely to have higher levels of these contaminants in their drinking water.

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Hungry Stingrays Shift Serious Amounts of Sediment

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 14 August 202414 August 2024

While digging for food on estuary bottoms, rays push around literally tons of sediment, changing their habitat in profound ways.

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Scientists Gain a New Tool to Listen for Nuclear Explosions

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 27 March 202427 March 2024

Mathematics and computer modeling help scientists tell natural earthquakes from nuclear tests.

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Harpy Eagles Concentrate Precious Nutrients in the Amazon

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 10 May 202325 May 2023

Amazon soils are usually low in the nutrients that plants covet, but harpy eagles can create local hot spots with their poop and prey.

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Peeking at Peatlands: Satellite Data Fuel New Findings

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 15 June 202229 June 2022

Researchers are combining hard-to-get field measurements with satellite imagery to gain new insight into where peatlands are and how they work.

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Getting to the Bottom of Slow-Motion Earthquakes

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 24 April 20202 December 2022

For close to 20 years, slow-motion earthquakes have been an enigma. Core samples provide new clues to their origins.

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Firing Up Climate Models

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 27 January 20201 April 2022

Scientists are working to incorporate wildfire data into climate models, resolving hindrances related to scale, speed, and the complex feedbacks between the climate and wildfire emissions.

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Modeling How Groundwater Pumping Will Affect Aquatic Ecosystems

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 15 November 201918 October 2021

Regions with dry climates and heavy agricultural industries may be the most hard-hit.

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Underground Robots: How Robotics Is Changing the Mining Industry

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 13 May 201928 July 2022

From exploring flooded sites to providing alerts, use of robotics aims to “increase the arsenal of tools that can help miners work more safely and efficiently.”

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