Geoff Brumfiel
Geoff Brumfiel works as a senior editor and correspondent on NPR's science desk. His editing duties include science and space, while his reporting focuses on the intersection of science and national security.
From April of 2016 to September of 2018, Brumfiel served as an editor overseeing basic research and climate science. Prior to that, he worked for three years as a reporter covering physics and space for the network. Brumfiel has carried his microphone into ghost villages created by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. He's tracked the journey of highly enriched uranium as it was shipped out of Poland. For a story on how animals drink, he crouched for over an hour and tried to convince his neighbor's cat to lap a bowl of milk.
Before NPR, Brumfiel was based in London as a senior reporter for Nature Magazine from 2007-2013. There, he covered energy, space, climate, and the physical sciences. From 2002 – 2007, Brumfiel was Nature Magazine's Washington Correspondent.
Brumfiel is the 2013 winner of the Association of British Science Writers award for news reporting on the Fukushima nuclear accident.
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A study in Poland found that doctors appeared less likely to detect abnormalities during colonoscopies on their own after they'd grown used to help from an AI tool. -
NASA is accelerating plans to have a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030. -
The volcano may have been primed to erupt before the magnitude 8.8 quake pushed it over the edge. -
A new study from Oxford University finds that a common European songbird sometimes divorces its partner between breeding seasons.
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A new study from Oxford University finds that a common European songbird sometimes divorces its partner between breeding seasons. -
Several dummy satellites were supposed to be launched, but a door on the ship did not open as planned. -
The far side of the moon looks very different from the near side, and with the Chang'e 6 mission, scientists are hoping to learn why. -
NASA-backed researchers say that millions of acres of farmland have been abandoned due to the conflict. -
Simone Gold isn't alone. NPR found other physicians who retained their licenses despite spreading misinformation online and to the media about effective COVID-19 vaccines and unproven treatments. -
Some people have reported getting a lighter or heavier period after getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Cause for concern? Doctors say no. Could it be a temporary side effect? That's harder to determine.
