about
As a kid, I was dead set on one day becoming the next famous meteorologist or pharmacist.I was fascinated by trips to the Museum of Science in Boston, where I could pretend to be a scientist even though I couldn't speak English well, as my entire family moved to the Boston area from Ukraine a few years before I was born. Admittedly, I'm obsessed with my babushka’s borscht.All through high school and into college, I worked at the Museum of Science teaching science in the very same exhibit I once visited as a kid. My favorite part of the job: putting on a giant bee costume to teach young visitors how bees make honey.I studied cognitive neuroscience at Brown University. After graduating, I was awarded the 2020 AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, where I covered science at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Today, I write for Nature as a life-sciences reporter.My work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Quanta Magazine, The Scientist, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Behavioral Scientist, and RI Public Radio.In my free time, I love to rock climb, book last-minute travel, and devour just about every journalistic piece I come across.To this day, I'm still fascinated by the weather and medicine and, who knows, hopefully I'm making childhood Max proud by writing about science.
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selected highlights
A full list of stories written for Nature can be found here.
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Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon. Here’s what you need to know
Nature
September 14, 2023
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What does ‘brain dead’ really mean? The battle over how science defines the end of life
Nature
July 11, 2023
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How record wildfires are harming human health
Nature
November 24, 2021
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New genomic study of placenta finds deep links to cancer
Quanta Magazine
April 8, 2021
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Cloud-making aerosol could devastate polar sea ice
Quanta Magazine
February 23, 2021
Republished in The Atlantic as
"The Arctic Has a Cloud Problem"
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Monkeypox in Africa: the science the world ignored
Nature
June 23, 2022
Follow-up: "WHO may soon end mpox emergency — but outbreaks rage in Africa"
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Jelly reignites debate on remote species identification
The Scientist
July 11, 2023
Won "Best Pick" of
SciShortform roundup
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Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
Nature
June 1, 2023
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The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby
Nature
September 21, 2022
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How a scandal in spider biology upended researchers’ lives
Nature
August 10, 2022
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Japanese beetles have wreaked havoc on plants. Researchers want to help.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 14, 2020
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Science with borders: Researchers navigate red tape
The Scientist
March 2021 issue
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I started my journalism career at Rhode Island's public radio station, The Public's Radio.
I reported news and produced episodes for a podcast called Possibly.
contact
Email me at maxdkozlov [at] gmail [dot] com or fill out the form below.If you're pitching me, please look at the kind of stories I write. I'm probably not interested in your new product or start-up.Or, if you prefer to reach out securely:
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